New Results On Its Formation
At the January 2010 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, David Nidever of the University of Virginia announced new results based on data derived from the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope and earlier radio astronomy observations. Now it appears established that the Magellanic Stream is much longer than earlier thought. Specifically, its size allows an explanation that Magellanic Stream had its beginning at about the time when the two Magellanic Clouds may have passed close to each other some 2.5 billion years ago. This event triggered massive bursts of star formation.
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