Magellanic Bridge (nonfiction)

The Magellanic Bridge (MBR) is a stream of neutral hydrogen that links the two Magellanic Clouds, with a few known stars inside it.

It was discovered in 1963 by J. V. Hindman et al.

There is a continuous stream of stars throughout the Bridge linking the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). This stellar bridge is of greater concentration in the western part.

There are two major density clumps, one near the SMC, the other midway between the galaxies, referred to as the OGLE Island.

It should not be confused with the Magellanic Stream, which links the Magellanic Clouds to the Milky Way.

See also

• Large Magellanic Cloud (nonfiction) - a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of about 50 kiloparsecs (≈163,000 light-years), the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~16 kpc) and the possible dwarf irregular galaxy known as the Canis Major Overdensity. Based on readily visible stars and a mass of approximately 10 billion solar masses, the diameter of the LMC is about 14,000 light-years (4.3 kpc), making it roughly one one-hundredth as massive as the Milky Way. This makes the LMC the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).
• Magellanic Stream (nonfiction) - a stream of high-velocity clouds of gas extending from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds over 100° through the Galactic south pole of the Milky Way. The stream was sighted in 1965 and its relation to the Magellanic Clouds was established in 1974.
• Milky Way (nonfiction)

• Magellanic Bridge @ Wikipedia

• For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic 'Bridge' Between Galaxies by Fiona MacDonald @ Science Alert (May 17, 2017)