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                                 2021 May 16
    [2]A picture from the Hubble Space Telescope showing the star cluster
     NGC 602. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

                             NGC 602 and Beyond
       Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, and the [5]Hubble Heritage Team
              ([6]STScI/[7]AURA) - [8]ESA/Hubble Collaboration

   Explanation: The clouds may look like an oyster, and the stars like
   pearls, but look beyond. Near the outskirts of the [9]Small Magellanic
   Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5
   million year [10]young star cluster [11]NGC 602. Surrounded by natal
   gas and dust, [12]NGC 602 is featured in this [13]stunning Hubble image
   of the region. [14]Fantastic ridges and swept back shapes strongly
   suggest that energetic radiation and shock waves from [15]NGC 602's
   massive young stars have eroded the [16]dusty material and triggered a
   progression of [17]star formation moving away from the cluster's
   center. At the estimated distance of the [18]Small Magellanic Cloud,
   [19]the featured picture spans about 200 light-years, but a
   [20]tantalizing assortment of background galaxies are also visible in
   [21]this sharp multi-colored view. The [22]background galaxies are
   hundreds of millions of light-years or more [23]beyond NGC 602.

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    Authors & editors: [35]Robert Nemiroff ([36]MTU) & [37]Jerry Bonnell
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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2105/Ngc602_Hubble_3749.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. https://www.spacetelescope.org/
   5. http://heritage.stsci.edu/
   6. https://www.stsci.edu/
   7. https://www.aura-astronomy.org/
   8. https://www.spacetelescope.org/
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100903.html
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution
  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQgKX1fGxQ
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_602
  13. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2007/news-2007-04.html
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061227.html
  15. https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/videos/2007/04/539-Video.html
  16. https://youtu.be/jn5M48MVWyg
  17. https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/how-do-stars-form-and-evolve
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210105.html
  19. https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2007/04/2042-Image.html
  20. http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/04/image/a/format/zoom
  21. http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/ngc602/
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