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claudia rose | lvl.25 | | 💫 ffxiv: aether/cactuar ~ arbitrary tales 🐉🧚🏻‍♀️🌷💜

[Erika  @ExploreCosmos_]

The Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbours, appears to be expanding rather than rotating like a stable disk.

A new analysis based on more than a decade of near-infrared observations from the VISTA Survey of the Magellanic Clouds has mapped the proper motions of millions of stars inside the galaxy with much higher precision than before. Instead of showing a clean, ordered rotation pattern, the stellar motions reveal that stars are moving away from the galaxy’s centre, especially along a southeast-northwest direction.

This matters because the Small Magellanic Cloud has long been treated, at least in simplified models, as a small galaxy with some kind of internal rotation. The new map suggests that this picture is too simple. Its internal motion is dominated by tidal disturbance. The main gravitational culprit is the Large Magellanic Cloud, its more massive companion, which has repeatedly interacted with it over billions of years. Those encounters have stretched and distorted the Small Magellanic Cloud, leaving it dynamically out of equilibrium.

The study used a longer observational baseline, around 6 to 11 years, from VISTA data release 7. That longer baseline allowed the researchers to measure stellar proper motions with about three times better precision than previous VMC-based studies. After correcting for the overall motion of the galaxy and for perspective effects, the residual motion map showed clear signs of large-scale expansion. The researchers also found no convincing evidence for normal disk-like rotation once those corrections were applied.

Another important point is that the disturbance is not only visible in the outer regions, where tidal stripping might be expected, but also in the central parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud. That suggests the whole galaxy has been strongly affected by its interaction with the Large Magellanic Cloud. Older red giant stars also show a coherent northward motion away from the centre, which the authors interpret as a possible kinematic fossil of an interaction that happened more than two billion years ago.

The broader implication is that the Small Magellanic Cloud is not a calm nearby dwarf galaxy, but a galaxy being reshaped in real time by gravitational encounters.

Because it is close enough for astronomers to measure individual stellar motions, it becomes a valuable laboratory for studying how small galaxies are disrupted, stretched, and transformed by larger companions. The result also warns that using simple rotating-disk models for disturbed dwarf galaxies can give a misleading picture of their structure and evolution.

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[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

Just once, it’s be nice to move my gaming setup and have no issues. Swear it doesn’t matter how carefully I do it nothing will work for 2-3 days after moving 🥲🙃

[Schlatt @jschlatt]

“well twitter was fun while it lasted” shut the fuck up. this app always sucked ass

[marty✩ is seeing bts @starryarmin]

rt this if ur a cute girl who’s into gaming

[TOPH「トフ」 @TophGames]

"Sex is great and all but have you ever just got really good furniture in #AnimalCrossing?" 😩👌💦

[Discord @discord]

we’ve officially made it

[Isabelle @animalcrossing]

[Announcement]
Create dream vacation homes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise!

This paid DLC for #AnimalCrossing: New Horizons arrives on 11/5 as paid DLC for $24.99, with preorders starting 10/29.

Find out more: https://t.co/T8HyMQ4xAf

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

😍🥺🥲🥰

[Isabelle @animalcrossing]

[Announcement]
The free Ver. 2.0 update launches on 11/5! Whether you're heading to the Roost for a cup of Brewster's finest coffee or taking a boat trip with Kapp'n to a mysterious island, you'll soon have new ways to enjoy your island life. #AnimalCrossing #ACNH

[Twitch @Twitch]

We can confirm a breach has taken place. Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon as additional information is available. Thank you for bearing with us.

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

@GM_Vrainz I am happy I can now connect my Bluetooth headset easily i just don’t understand why they only just decided to flick the ‘on switch’ for Bluetooth connectivity if it was always there xD

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

Honestly can’t wrap my head around the fact that after 4 years, Nintendo decided to update the switch to finally have Bluetooth connectivity for wireless headphones like; IT WAS THERE THIS WHOLE TIME?!? 💆🏻‍♀️

[Pathea Games - Evershine Awaits! @PatheaGames]

Yup, the #MyTimeatPortia console update is coming soon too! New side quests of many #NPCs, face-changing functions, #DLC outfits, and more are waiting for you. Detailed change-list will come after the patch releases.

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

Been a long wait but I’m happy asf that Atelier Online (for mobile) finally got released in the west 🧚🏻‍♀️🥰 #AtelierOnline

[Wood Hawker @BeatEmUps]

Everyone saying "it's their fault for getting hyped up over a rumor"... it wasn't a rumor. It's here. It's real. Everything other than the guts was true.

The disappointing part isn't what it SHOULD of been, but what it COULD of been.

That said, I'm still excited for it ✌

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

Me want new nintendo switch w/ oled display NoW 🥲🥺

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

@FF_XIV_EN @SquareEnix @Kretune

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

now a lvl.80 dancer 🥰💃🏼❤️

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

I know I need to go to bed & get up in 4hrs but guess what I’m doing.. watching a documentary on Rasputin cause the songs stuck in my head and I wanna know who tf this man is x.x

[𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓊𝓂𝑜 @sailorkumo]

I swear anytime I start getting somewhere with my msq in ffxiv/back into the game it’s time for maintenance 🥲 only 4hrs but still. I HAVE TIME TO PLAY NOW Y U DO THIS