images

Open cluster NGC 265 in Small Magellanic Cloud

by

ESA/NASA/Novapix

Reference

a-aou02-65001

Date

2006-04-24

The stars in this open cluster are all relatively young and were born from the same cloud of interstellar gas. The Small Magellanic Cloud, which hosts the star cluster, is one of the small satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. It can be seen with the unaided eye as a hazy patch in the constellation Tucana (the Toucan) in the Southern Hemisphere. The image was taken in october and november 2004 through different filters by the Hubble space telescope.