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Close Clouds [1]

The Magellanic Clouds -- two companion galaxies of the Milky Way -- shine through the dark skies above ALMA, a large radio telescope array in Chile. Recent research says that the two clouds collided about 150 million years ago, stripping most of the star-making gas from the smaller of the two galaxies. [ESO/S. Guisard]

Galactic Smash-Up
Magellanic Clouds over ALMA
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