Inbox Astronomy: NASA’s Webb Captures an Ethereal View of NGC 346

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NASA’s Webb Captures an Ethereal View of NGC 346

Release date: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Filaments of dust and gas festoon this star-forming region in a new infrared image from MIRI

Within a neighboring dwarf galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) lies a dramatic region of star birth – NGC 346, shown here. As the brightest and largest star-forming region in the SMC, it has been studied intensely by a variety of telescopes. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed a visible-light view filled with thousands of stars. More recently, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope offered a near-infrared vista highlighting both cool and warm dust. Now, Webb has turned its mid-infrared gaze to NGC 346, revealing streamers of gas and dust studded with bright patches filled with young protostars. 

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