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                                    2022 May 12   
      
                              Young Stars of NGC 346   
       Image Credit: NASA, ESA - acknowledgement: Antonella Nota (ESA/STScI)   
                                      et al.,   
      
      Explanation: The massive stars of NGC 346 are short lived, but very   
      energetic. The star cluster is embedded in the largest star forming   
      region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, some 210,000 light-years distant.   
      Their winds and radiation sweep out an interstellar cavern in the gas   
      and dust cloud about 200 light-years across, triggering star formation   
      and sculpting the region's dense inner edge. Cataloged as N66, the star   
      forming region also appears to contain a large population of infant   
      stars. A mere 3 to 5 million years old and not yet burning hydrogen in   
      their cores, the infant stars are strewn about the embedded star   
      cluster. In this false-color Hubble Space Telescope image, visible and   
      near-infrared light are seen as blue and green, while light from atomic   
      hydrogen emission is red.   
      
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