The corotation circle acts as an interface that can either reflect or transmit these waves, allowing them to gain energy at the expense of the global rotational kinetic energy of the galaxy.
A satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud is wonder of the southern sky, named for 16th century Portuguese circumnavigator Ferdinand Magellan.
It's why we strive, always to extend our impact beyond the borders of our campus to the communities we serve, and to the frontiers of human knowledge that now span galaxies.
It was spotted with the James Webb Space Telescope and astronomers and researchers say that this galaxy existed when the universe was only about 700 million years into its current age of about 13.8 billion years.
But the sun is also spinning around the galaxy which in turn is flying through the universe, making your chance interaction with the light quite incredible.