NGC 346 è uno splendido ammasso aperto formato da decine di giovani stelle la cui età è stimata in non più di qualche milione di anni. Si trova nella Piccola Nube di Magellano, una piccola galassia satellite della Via Lattea visibile anche a occhio nudo dai cieli Austral. Approximately 210 thousand light-years and estimated size in about 200 light years, NCG 346 is returned in all its extraordinary beauty in this image obtained by the astronomers using ESO's room WFI (Wide Field Imager) with the telescope of 2.2 meters operating under the skies of La Silla in Chile addition to the many young stars are also visible structures formed by the nebular gas are still in progress in which the processes of star formation. The characteristic form taken by the cloud of gas is due to the action of intense stellar winds emitted by young stars who dig and shape the gas in an ongoing process as new stars begin their life cycle.
Credit: ESO
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