#small magellanic cloud

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Small Magellanic Cloud

[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.

[spacewonder19]

A Dwarf Galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud ©

[quiltofstars]

A "necklace" of nebulae in the SMC // Kartik Atre

[inefekt]

Milky Way at York, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.5 - Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds - Sky: 35 x 30 seconds - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter

[cosmonautroger]

Small Magellanic Cloud

[livingforstars]

The Small Cloud of Magellan - July 19th, 1997.

"The southern sky contains wonders almost unknown in the north. These wonders include the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds: small irregular galaxies orbiting our own larger Milky Way spiral galaxy. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), pictured here, is about 250,000 light-years away. The SMC contains many young, hot, blue stars, indicating it has undergone a recent period of star formation, possibly due to a collision with the LMC 500 million years ago. The bright object on the right is a globular cluster near the outskirts of the Milky Way."

[colorpicked-pride-flags-jwst]

Trans flag colorpicked from the Small Magellanic Cloud