[subcosmos]

The LMC is effectively a galaxy that we captured and started tearing stars from. The white disk is the core.

[lifeformed]

Are the cloudy puffs remnants of exploded stars?

[KnightOfWords]

Some of them, yes.

[zeristor]

We?

[stan_rogers]

Your mass, and mine, are parties to the gravitational conspiracy, yes. One can even trivially prove that the Freemasons and the Roman Catholic Church are in on it. "We" is an appropriate pronoun in this instance, just as it would be for a nation of which you are a citizen.