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  • Galaxies Dedicated to ‘Colonist’ Explorer Must be Renamed, Demand Academics.

    11/16/2023 6:57:25 AM PST · by Bon of Babble · 50 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | 11/13/2023 | PULSE WIRES
    Astronomers have advocated for a renaming of two galaxies, currently named the Large and Small Megellanic Clouds after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, due to his record of “violent colonialism.”
  • Astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds...Explorer Ferdinand Magellan's name is not fitting, a group of scientists argues

    10/02/2023 8:50:28 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 80 replies
    Science News ^ | SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 AT 7:00 AM | By Emily Conover
    Names have significance, especially when they’re written in the stars. A group of astronomers is coalescing around an idea to rename two neighbors of the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Named after explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the satellite galaxies are visible with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. But Magellan’s name is not fitting, astronomer Mia de los Reyes and colleagues argue. The leader of the first expedition to successfully circle the globe, Magellan enslaved and killed Indigenous people encountered on the voyage, which set out from Spain in 1519 (SN: 9/17/19). “Because we’re naming things in...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Large Cloud of Magellan

    05/28/2013 10:51:23 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 4 replies
    NASA ^ | May 28, 2013 | (see photo credit)
    Explanation: The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily visible to southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan, now understood to be satellite galaxies of our much larger, spiral Milky Way galaxy. About 160,000 light-years distant in the constellation Dorado, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is seen here in a remarkably deep, colorful, and annotated composite image. Spanning about 15,000 light-years or so, it is the most massive of the Milky...