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NGC 346 - Young Stars
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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. At the center of the region is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346. The NGC 346 cluster at the center contains dozens of hot, blue, high-mass stars, more than half of the known high-mass stars in the entire SMC galaxy.

Credit: NASA/Hubble Heritage Collection.

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