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Samantha Mathewson

Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo)

The open star cluster NGC 460 is located within a greater collection of nebulae and star clusters known as N83, within one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbors: the Small Magellanic Cloud. .

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. NGC 460 is surrounded by a number of other young stellar clusters and varying sized nebulae, which are clouds of gas and dust that fuel new star formation.

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