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    The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 346, a massive stellar nursery located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, just 200,000 light-years from Earth. NGC 346 is 150 light-years in diameter and contains material equivalent to 50,000 suns. Stars and gas are seen spiraling towards the center of NGC 346, with the outer arm possibly fueling intense star formation. The discovery could provide clues about how stars formed in early galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang. Despite differences from the Milky Way like simpler chemical composition and shorter-lived stars, star formation proceeds similarly in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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    The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 346, a massive stellar nursery located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, just 200,000 light-years from Earth. NGC 346 is 150 light-years in diameter and contains material equivalent to 50,000 suns. Stars and gas are seen spiraling towards the center of NGC 346, with the outer arm possibly fueling intense star formation. The discovery could provide clues about how stars formed in early galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang. Despite differences from the Milky Way like simpler chemical composition and shorter-lived stars, star formation proceeds similarly in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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    The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 346, a massive stellar nursery located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, just 200,000 light-years from Earth. NGC 346 is 150 light-years in diameter and contains material equivalent to 50,000 suns. Stars and gas are seen spiraling towards the center of NGC 346, with the outer arm possibly fueling intense star formation. The discovery could provide clues about how stars formed in early galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang. Despite differences from the Milky Way like simpler chemical composition and shorter-lived stars, star formation proceeds similarly in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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    September 23, 2022

    Vol. 1September 23, 2022


    Vol.1

    NGC 346 is just 150 light-years in


    diameter and contains stellar material
    with a mass equivalent to 50,000 suns.
    The region has been puzzling
    astronomers with its intense star
    formation rate. The Small Magellanic
    Cloud that houses NGC 346 is located
    just 200,000 light-years away from Earth,
    ASA's venerable space which means that astronomers see
    telescope has spotted stars and younger light than from more distant
    gas spiraling towards the heart galaxies that can reveal the early
    of a massive, curiously shaped stellar universe. However, the dwarf galaxy is
    nursery in the nearby Small Magellanic analogous to early galaxies in other
    Cloud. Astronomers think that the outer ways.
    arm of this spiral of stars and gas could
    be providing a river-like flow of gas that is
    The Small Magellanic Cloud has a
    fueling star formation in the stellar
    simpler chemical composition than the
    nursery, called NGC 346, seen in the
    Milky Way, just like early galaxies that
    newly released image captured by the
    hadn't yet been enriched with heavier
    Hubble Space Telescope. The discovery
    elements by successive generations of
    could provide important clues of how
    stars going supernova, exploding and
    stars were born when the 13.8-billion-
    seeding space with elements they forged
    year-old galaxy was just a few billion
    during their lives. Because of this
    years old and was undergoing a stellar
    chemical simplicity, the stars in the Small
    "baby boom" of intense star formation.
    Magellanic Cloud are hotter and burn
    through fuel more rapidly than stars in the
    "Stars are the machines that sculpt Milky Way, meaning they age more
    the universe. We would not have life quickly than our galaxy's stars. Yet,
    without stars, and yet we don't fully despite these differences, the
    understand how they form," Elena Sabbi, researchers discovered that star
    study leader and an astronomer at the formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud
    Space Telescope Science Institute in proceeds similarly to how it does in the
    Baltimore, which manages Hubble, said Milky Way.
    in a statement.

    "We have several models that make


    predictions, and some of these
    predictions are contradictory," she
    added. "We want to determine what is
    regulating the process of star formation
    because these are the laws that we need
    to also understand what we see in the
    early universe."
    For more information, visit https://www.space.com/hubble-
    space-telescope-star-formation-spiral-photo

    Olivia Marie T. Fernandez


    BS Architecture - 03

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