Hubble Space Telescope Spies Spin of Nearby Galaxy

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 17:01 in Astronomy & Space

Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the central part of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy completes one rotation every 250 million years — the same time it takes the sun finish a lap around the core of our own Milky Way.

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