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Magellanic Stream


Magellanic Stream
Image from a simulation of the gas in, and streaming from, the Magellanic Clouds. Simulation by Daisuke Kawata, Chris Fluke, Sarah Maddison, and Brad Gibson, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
A filament of neutral hydrogen, spanning roughly 300,000 light-years, that may have been torn out of the Magellanic Clouds by the Milky Way Galaxy some 200 million years ago. It forms an arc in the southern sky about 150° long, stretching from the region between the Magellanic Clouds and passing close to the south galactic pole.


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