Latest NGC 346 Stories
In this striking new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile young stars huddle together against a backdrop of clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust.
Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana (the Toucan).
Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region.
- Withering but not falling off, as a blossom that persists on a twig after flowering.