Magellanic Bridge

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The Magellanic Bridge (MBR) is a stream of low density neutral hydrogen (HI) that links the two Magellanic Clouds, with a few known stars inside it. Though the stream is low density, it is still capable of star formation. The entire stream has a mass of (3–5)×105 M☉.

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Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgements: S. Jordan, T. Sagristà, X. Luri et al (2020), CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, via Wikimedia Commons.