The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), A Small Galaxy, Located About 200,000 Light-Years Away, Orbiting Our Milky Way Galaxy is Being Torn Apart, A New Study Has Claimed. The findings, published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series On Chiursday (Apr 10), sugges that the gravitational pull of the large magellanic cloud (LMC), The SMC’s Larger Companion, MIGHT BE Tearing the Smaller One Apart.
“When we first got this result, we suspend that there might be an error in our method of analysis. Astronomer at Nagoya University in Japan Who Co-Led the Study.
Analysing the data collected by the european space agency’s recently retired gaia spacecraft, the scientists found Being “Pulled Apart”.
“Some of these stars are approaching the lmc, while others are moving away from it,” said mr tachihara, adding that the gravitational influence of the lmc might be leading smc to its “Graval Destructation”.
The researchers also made another shocking discovery. Claiming that the Massive Stars Tracked With The SMC was not rotating Around the Galaxy’s Axis. This sugges that somebing might be wrong with our understanding of the galaxy’s mass and its history of interactions with the lmc and the milky way.
“If galactic rotation is absent in the SMC, It Blad Significant Alter The Previously Calculated Histories of Interactions Among the Milky Way, LMC, SMC, SMC.”
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Importance of SMC
The SMC, AlongSide LMC, is one of the 30 galaxies residing in our cosmic neighborhood. Measuring just 7,000 light-Years Across Compared to our own Galaxy’s 100,000 light-Year Diameter, SMC Circles The Milky Way About Once Everybody 1.5 billion Years.
Even thought it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the smc is so bright that it is visible to the unaned eye from the southern hemisphere and near the Equator. Owing to its proximity and brightness, SMC offers an options to study phenomena that are difficult to examine in more distant galaxies.
“We are unable to get a ‘bird’s -e-eye view’ of the galaxy in which we live,” Mr Tachihara Noted. “As a result, the smc and the lmc are the only galaxies in which we can observe the details of steellar motion. Motion of stars throughout the galaxy. “
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