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Star Formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud - NGC 602

The Small Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation Tucana, is roughly 200,000 light-years from the Earth. Its proximity to us makes it an exceptional laboratory to perform in-depth studies of star formation processes and their evolution in an environment slightly different from our own Milky Way. This image of a nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud shows newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a st...