Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Powerful Stellar Nursery

Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Energetic Nursery New images from the James Space Telescope This web shows the young star cluster NGC 602 surrounded by a cloud of various nebulae. Near the outer region of the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is approximately 200,000 light years from Earth. The presence of dark clouds with dense dust and the fact that the cluster is rich in ionized gas. This indicates that there is a star formation process underway.

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