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Star Cluster NGC 602 and Beyond © ©
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Star Cluster NGC 602 and Beyond © ©
A star-forming complex in the Small Magellanic Cloud // Geoff Healey
NGC 602
NGC 456 and NGC 602
"A Bubbly Complex on the Edge of the SMC"
Courtesy: Kevin Morefield
THE INFANCY OF STARS.
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Infant NGC 602, a young, bright open cluster of infant stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It is embedded in a nebula known as N90.
OBJECT NAME: NGC 602, N90
OBJECT DESCRIPTION: Cluster within Star-Forming Region in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
CONSTELLATION: Tucana.
DISTANCE: Approximately 196,000 light-years (61 kiloparsecs).
DIMENSIONS: This image is roughy 3 arcminute (180 light-years or 55 parsecs) wide.
Source: www.flickr.com/photos/lumase/3063774826.
NGC 602 In The Flying Lizard Nebula
NGC 602 and Beyond
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602. Surrounded by natal gas and dust, NGC 602 is featured in this stunning Hubble image of the region, augmented by images in the X-ray by Chandra, and in the infrared by Spitzer. Fantastic ridges and swept back shapes strongly suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from NGC 602's massive young stars have eroded the dusty material and triggered a progression of star formation moving away from the cluster's center. At the estimated distance of the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Picture spans about 200 light-years, but a tantalizing assortment of background galaxies are also visible in this sharp multi-colored view. The background galaxies are hundreds of millions of light-years or more beyond NGC 602.
Star cluster NGC 602 and the surrounding neighborhood. Image Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: Hubble: NASA/STScI; Infrared: Spitzer: NASA/JPL-Caltech. (NASA/APOD)