The large and Small Magellanic clouds have migrated from outside.
Scientists recognized that the largest satellites of our galaxy, namely the large and small Magellanic clouds, was not formed in its vicinity and far beyond its borders.
According to experts, the current provision they received as a result of a kind of “migration” towards the milky Way.
Long known for the fact that the milky way is not the only celestial body located in space, with him nearby more than a dozen galaxies, the dwarf type. Two of the largest and most prominent neighbors of the milky Way are relatively small galaxies the large and small Magellanic clouds. Their diameter is about 13-14 thousand light-years.
According to Bruno Diaz, an employee at the European southern Observatory in Chile, these two galaxies has been for quite a long time attracts the attention and the views of experts from around the world who are interested in learning about their irregular shapes and unusual manner of rotation around the milky Way that is unique to them. Recently astrophysicists have carried out an experiment to measure the speed of rotation of the Magellanic clouds and the results threw them into confusion, because the speed was incredibly high. This gave scientists the basis that these galaxies are cosmic “refugees” travelling between the different groups of galaxies.
The experts decided to test this theory. A little later was created a group of specialists in composition, which included Diaz. This group carried out an additional experiment and made measurements of the age of stars in the outskirts and in the centre of the large and small Magellanic clouds. The results showed that in the small and large Magellanic region there was a shift of stars composing the galaxies. More young stars were located on a small distance from the city center, and a large concentration of older stars was observed in only one of the edges of galaxies, and in others in much smaller quantities. This fact suggests that previously there was a clash between the small and large Magellanic cloud, and that they originated outside the local group of galaxies of the milky way.
