News from the Magellanic Clouds

The Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH; [1]) was designed to study in depth the two largest satellites of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds. This survey, with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam; which is funded mainly by the US Department of Energy), mapped 480 square degrees (distributed over 2,400 square degrees in and around the Clouds) in five photometric bands (ugriz) down to magnitude ~24 in each band. All of the observations were released in SMASH DR2 [2] and are available via NOIRLab’s Astro Data Lab. Although the observations were collected during the period 2013–2016, the SMASH collaboration continues exploiting the rich dataset. We report here three new exciting results from the survey.