Two Star Forming Systems for the Small Magellanic Cloud

Figuring out the history of our tiny neighbour

The Small Magellanic Cloud Imaged by Herschel, Planck, IRAS, and COBE. Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/CSIRO/NANTEN2/C. Clark (STScI)

Galaxies are often a jumbled mix of the remnants of smaller galaxies that all merged together, and it looks like our tiny neighbour, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), is no exception. A paper published last month finds that t…