The Magellanic stream, in crimson, stretches practically midway around the Milky Way
NASA
A bunch of stars hidden in an enormous stream of mud and gasoline that wraps around the Milky Way, which astronomers have been looking for a long time, has been found. These stars may give us clues about the historical past of two of the Milky Way’s closest dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which feed this ribbon of fabric.
Up till now, the Magellanic stream, as it’s recognized, gave the impression to be devoid of stars, regardless of astronomers predicting …