Nearby star cluster yields insights into early universe
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22/07/1998
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic clound of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small irregular satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. These are probably the youngest massive stars ever seen in the nearby galaxy.