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Continue from above. Our closest neighboring galaxy maybe being torn apart. Velocities of massive star candidates within SMC shown as vectors. The colors of the arrows represent the direction of motion. Relative to the LMC, located at bottom left of the image, most red arrows show movement towards the LMC, whereas most light blue arrows show movement away from the LMC, suggesting they are being pulled apart. A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way.