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Protoplanetary Disks in NGC 346 (NIRCam Image)

Caption This is a James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. With its relative lack of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the NGC 346 cluster serves as...

Date
Dec 16, 2024
Mission
Hubble Space Telescope
Archive ID
hubblesite-images-2024-135-01jc4374vr4t3vepgf2jqf44bq
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Caption

This is a James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. With its relative lack of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the NGC 346 cluster serves as a nearby proxy for studying stellar environments with similar conditions in the early, distant universe. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid on the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.

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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)

Keywords

  • Stellar Disks
  • Nebulas
  • Emission Nebulas
  • Star Forming Regions
  • Star Clusters

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