Magellanic

The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible.

The Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds appear destined to see a lot more of one another in the eons ahead.

Now this has really been a fun study because I put satellite tags on the back of these Magellanic Penguins.

Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached pieces of our galaxy.

The Small Magellanic Cloud isn't much to look at with the naked eye, even for visitors to the International Space Station.

The festive grouping sits in a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite of our Milky Way galaxy.

SN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy.

On the right, just above Pulpit Rock, is the Milky Way's small neighboring galaxy the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

This NASA composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Tarantula lies 170, 000 light years from Earth within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy.

It was seen in 1987 amid vast billows of gas in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Magellanic penguins typically spend months at sea, riding cold currents and feasting on sardines.

N44F lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way.

It's the start of mating season for Magellanic penguins in southeastern Argentina .

This halo could extend all the way to the Milky Way's nearest neighboring galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, scientists said.

At the distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud, this field of view spans about 150 light-years.

Aninfrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA'sSpitzer Space Telescope.

The Small Magellanic Cloud holds some three billion stars, and the Large Cloud perhaps 30 billion.

Moving further away, we find the Milky Way isn't alone; it's accompanied by two satellite galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds.

In 1987, the brightest supernova in recent history occurred in the Large Magellanic Clouds.

The two Magellanic are each about ten times larger.

In our neighboring Magellanic Cloud galaxy, powerful stars blow a burning, nebulous breeze 160, 000 light-years into the cosmos.

SN 1987A is sited in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way Galaxy.

The prominent red knot on the right is 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, a giant star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 15, 000 light-years across.

Identified as E0102-72, the supernova remnant lies about 190, 000 light-years away in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Magellanic penguins, the ones that I work on, they can dive to about 90 meters. And they stay down for about 4. 6 minutes.

So when I went to study the Magellanic Penguins, I didn't have any problems.