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Nebula NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud

by

Nasa/ESA/Novapix

Reference

a-neb80-66000

Date

2008-07-29

Nebula NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby irregular galaxy, seen by the Hubble space telescope in July 2004. In the center of this nebula, a cluster of very young stars, some of them are less than 5 millions years old.