[bedolido]

[ThinkPlease]

Cool! Thanks for posting this, would have never seen it otherwise! This is exciting news for all of the galactic dynamicists out there. It provides a possible upper limit for the closest approach distance, as well as the earliest capture time of the LMC in prior orbits. Pretty neat stuff.

[petuniasevan]

I'd read somewhere that the LMC shows vestiges of spiral structure. Its passages too close to our galaxy may have distorted it. Hmmm...

Here's the LMC's biggest star-forming region, the Tarantula Nebula.

[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks for the post. :-)