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The Magellanic Stream May Be 5 Times Closer to Us Than We Ever Realized - ScienceAlert

The Magellanic Stream May Be 5 Times Closer to Us Than We Ever Realized - ScienceAlert

The Magellanic Stream May Be 5 Times Closer to Us Than We Ever Realized - ScienceAlert
Nov 23, 2021 45 secs

Now, the same team has used astronomical models to model the formation and evolution of the Magellanic Stream over 3.5 billion years – and found that it could be five times closer to us than we realized.

"The Magellanic Stream origin has been a big mystery for the last 50 years," said physicist Scott Lucchini of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The surprising part was that the models brought the stream much closer to the Milky Way.".

The results mean that the gas in the Magellanic Stream is likely to start colliding with the Milky Way sooner than we thought, injecting it with new material and generating shocks that will cause gas to clump together to form new stars.

These stars ought to have been removed from the Magellanic Clouds along with the gas, but so far only a few have been identified, and not conclusively.

"It's shifting the paradigm of the stream," Lucchini said.

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