#ngc 346

[spacewonder19]

Dusty Ribbons of Star Cluster NGC 346 © JWST

[spacetelescopescience]

Located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, NGC 346 is a region of star formation seen here in Hubble Space Telescope visible light data (red, green, and blue) and Chandra observatory X-rays (pinkish purple).

The large, neon-pink X-ray cloud hangs in the upper right, representing the high-energy environment of stars roughly 1 to 3 million years old. The dark blue background is scattered with orange and white stellar specks and hazy streaks of gas and dust.

NGC 346 is home to more than 2,500 newborn stars. The cluster’s most massive stars, which are many times more massive than our Sun, blaze with an intense blue light in this image.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble); Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare.

[quiltofstars]

NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud // Georg N. Nyman

[cosmonautroger]

NGC 346

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Star formation in the dusty ribbons l Webb

Star Cluster NGC 346 ESA/Hubble (x x)

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Pangender flag colorpicked from protoplanetary disks in NGC 346

[chibinotan]

Infrared Cluster

[blasteffect]

NGC 346 !

Composite. X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Optical: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image Processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk, and K. Arcand