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Astronomy professor Mia de los Reyes is leading the charge to have Milky Way's closest galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, renamed, arguing that slave-owning, murderous explorer Ferdinand Magellan did not discover the systems.
A coalition of astronomers calls for renaming the Milky Way’s two brightest satellite galaxies, along with other astronomical objects and facilities that bear the name of a Portuguese explorer who murdered and enslaved Indigenous people.
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This composite image of NGC4535 shows a Hubble image of the galaxy, overlaid with new ALMA observations of the galaxy’s molecular clouds. [ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/PHANGS, S. Dagnello (NRAO)]