{"id":116450,"date":"2026-08-01T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=116450"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:26:55","slug":"magellanic-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/magellanic-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Magellanic Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Magellanic Bridge Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team led by Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) team has discovered the first known system of its kind in the Magellanic Bridge by using eROSITA X-ray telescope.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Magellanic Bridge<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>stream of stars and gas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> created by the close encounter of two nearby galaxies, <\/span><b>the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is mainly a gaseous feature <\/span><b>connecting the two galaxies,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a small fraction of in situ formed young stars.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MB is believed to be <\/span><b>composed of tidally stripped material<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the SMC during its last encounter with the LMC, approximately 200-300 Myr ago.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magellanic Bridge can help us understand how close encounters between <\/span><b>galaxies influence the way binary stars form, evolve and survive.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers will be <\/span><b>able to compare stellar evolution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Bridge with that in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and gain a clearer picture of how interactions between <\/span><b>neighbouring galaxies shape their stars over time.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Features of eROSITA X-ray Telescope<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eROSITA (<\/span><b>extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is a wide-field X-ray telescope on-board the Russian-German &#8220;Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma&#8221; (SRG) observatory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was developed under the leadership of the <\/span><b>Max-Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany (DE).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eROSITA is a sensitive X-ray telescope capable of delivering deep, sharp images over very large areas of the <\/span><b>sky in the energy range ~0.2-8 keV.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is placed in a halo <\/span><b>orbit around the L2 point<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>has been performing an all-sky survey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in which the whole celestial sphere is mapped once every six months.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/pune\/erosita-magellanic-bridge-star-discovery-iucaa-xray-binary-system-10812469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magellanic Bridge is a stream of stars and gas created by the close encounter of two nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. 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