The Large Magellanic Cloud Cannibalizing Smaller Galaxies

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast. SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 123 *The Large Magellanic Cloud cannibalizing smaller galaxies Scientists have confirmed that the Large Magellanic Cloud has been cannibalizing smaller galaxies. Astronomers already knew that large galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with or cannibalizing smaller galaxies. But now a report in the journal Nature has shown that a small satellite dwarf galaxy like the Large Magellanic Cloud has in turn absorbed an even smaller galaxy in its vicinity. *NASA’s first test of optical communications technology NASA is about to test a new optical laser communications system in space for the first time. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration is gearing up for launch next month with the payload now fully integrated into its host spacecraft and ready for its final testing before being lofted into orbit. *One Web’s constellation passes the halfway mark One Web have launched another 36 broadband internet satellites into orbit. *The Science Report Discovery of the first fossil evidence of modern human remains from the Pleistocene in Sulawesi. The US State Department provides details on America’s current nuclear weapons stockpile. A new study suggests horses were first domesticated in the Volga-Don region of Russia. Skeptic's guide to schadenfreude over COVID deniers who get sick. For more SpaceTime and show links: https://linktr.ee/biteszHQ If you love this podcast, please get someone else to listen too. Thank you… Your support is needed... SpaceTime is an independently produced podcast (we are not funded by any government grants, big organisations or companies), and we’re working towards becoming a completely listener supported show...meaning we can do away with the commercials and sponsors. We figure the time can be much better spent on researching and producing stories for you, rather than having to chase sponsors to help us pay the bills. That's where you come in....help us reach our first 1,000 subscribers...at that level