... How do violent stars affect their surroundings? To help find out, astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope to the regions surrounding Eta Carina, a star showing signs that it may explode sometime in the next million years. ... The bright star.. ... What's lighting up the Cigar Galaxy? ... Canis Major Dwarf: A New Closest Galaxy . ... For many years astronomers thought the Large Magellan Cloud (LMC) was closest, but its title was supplanted in 1994 by the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. ...