Pan of NGC 346
Astronomers have been bemused to find young stars spiralling into the centre of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The outer arm of the spiral in this huge, oddly shaped stellar nursery — called NGC 346 — may be feeding star formation in a river-like motion of gas and stars.
Credit:NASA, ESA, N. Bartmann
Music: Breath of my Soul
About the Video
| Id: | heic2211a |
| Release date: | 8 September 2022, 16:00 |
| Related releases: | heic2211 |
| Duration: | 30 s |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps |
