July 10, 2014 NGC 411, an open star cluster in the SMC Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA NGC 411 is a small open star cluster of about 1.5 billion years old in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf companion galaxy to our Milky Way, which is located some 200,000 light-years away from Earth [continue reading]
December 1, 2013 NGC 406, a spiral galaxy in Tucana Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA NGC 406 is a spiral galaxy of about 60,000 light-years across, located some 61 million light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Tucana (the Toucan). It is receding from us at approximately 1508 kilometers per second. Roughly half [continue reading]
September 3, 2013 NGC 346, an open star cluster in the SMC Image Credit: Antonella Nota (ESA/STScI, STScI/AURA), NASA and ESA NGC 346 is an open star cluster within an emission nebula of about 200 light-years across in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) – a small satellite of our Milky Way – which lies some [continue reading]
May 17, 2013 NGC 290, an open star cluster in the SMC Image Credit: ESA and NASA; Acknowledgment: E. Olszewski (University of Arizona) NGC 290 is an open star cluster that contains hundreds of stars packed into a region of about 65 light-years across. It is located some 200,000 light-years away from Earth in the [continue reading]
March 30, 2013 ESO 148-2, a pair of colliding galaxies in Tucana Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) ESO 148-2 (also known as ESO 148-IG002 or AM 2312-591) is a pair of interacting galaxies that lie around 550 million light-years from Earth in [continue reading]