Reports published June 7 said new maps of stellar motion indicate the Small Magellanic Cloud is expanding and being pulled apart by the gravitational influence of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the larger of the two neighboring dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way. Space.com described the system as a gravitational tug of war between dwarf-galaxy siblings, with the Small Magellanic Cloud losing. The findings came from a long-running observation project that t3n.de said yielded unexpected evidence ab...

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