NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have been utilized by the astronomers to accurately measure the rotation rate of a galaxy for the first time, based on the clock-like movement of its stars. The study showed that the central part of the neighboring galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), finishes a rotation every 250 million years, same as the time taken by our sun to complete a rotation … [Read more...]
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