A new study has claimed that small Magalanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy, is located about 200,000 light-year away, our Milky Way Galaxy is being torn down, a new study has claimed. Conclusions, published in Astronomy -Ethical magazine supplementary series On Thursday (April 10), suggests that the gravitational bridge of SMC’s elder Magalnnic Cloud (LMC) may separate the small.
“When we first got this result, we suspected that there could be an error in our method of analysis. However, in the near examination, the results are undisputed, and we were surprised,” said Kango Tachihara, an astronomer of Nagoya University in Japan, said, who resorted to studies.
Analyzing the data collected by the European Space Agency recently retired by retired Gaia spacecraft, scientists found that the stars in SMC were moving in opposite directions on both sides of the galaxy as if they were “separated”.
“Some of these stars are contacting LMC, while others are moving away from it,” Mr. Tachihara said, LMC’s gravitational effect may lead to “serial destruction” to SMC.
Researchers also made another shocking discovery. Claiming that the large -scale stars tracked within the SMC were not moving around the axis of the galaxy. This suggests that something wrong can happen with our understanding about the history of Galaxy’s mass and LMC and Milky Way.
“If the galactic rotation is absent in SMC, it can change the history made before the interaction between Milky Way, LMC and SMC.”
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Importance of SMC
SMC with LMC is one of the 30 galaxies living in our cosmic neighborhood. SMC surrounds the Milky Way once every 1.5 billion years, measuring only 7,000 light-years compared to the diameter of our own galaxy 100,000 light-year diameter.
Even if it is a small, or so -called dwarf galaxy, SMC is so bright that it is visible from the southern hemisphere and without the equator. Due to its closeness and brightness, SMC provides an opportunity to study events that are difficult to examine in more distant galaxies.
“We are unable to get a ‘bird-i scene’ of the galaxy, in which we live,” said Mr. Tachihara. “As a result, SMC and LMC are the only galaxies that we can inspect the details of the stellar motion. This research is important as it allows us to study the process of star formation in relation to the speed of stars in the galaxy.”
