NGC 602 processed from Hubble Legacy Archive

Posted by Lynn Hilborn
on Friday, March 8, 2013

NGC 602 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. Data processed by Lynn Hilborn on March 05, 2013.

Data from the Hubble Legacy Archives established by the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre.

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602.

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