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Astronomers are shocked to find our galaxy's nearest neighbor is being torn to shreds

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The Small Magellanic Cloud is 200,000 light-years from Earth .

It is one of the closest galaxies to our own and is gravitationally bound to our Milky Way .

A new analysis of star patterns has revealed that the SMC is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

The SMC 's low metallicity and weak gravitational potential energy means it resembles what many galaxies may have looked like in their early days .

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