The Milky Way’s Nearest Neighbors are Unusual
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010[An anomaly among the closest companions to our Galaxy is that the LMC [Large Magellanic Cloud] is so extraordinarily luminous for a magellanic irregular galaxy. In nearby regions of the Universe there are only two Ir galaxies (NGC 4214 and NGC 4449) that even come close to rivaling the LMC in luminosity. In other words [...]