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current	06:00, 5 December 2022		2,682 × 1,840 (2.13 MB)	commons>Fabian RRRR	== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information \|description={{en\|1='''Head in the Clouds A small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is pictured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The SMC is a dwarf galaxy and one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbours, lying only about 200 000 light-years from Earth. It makes a pair with the Large Magellanic Cloud, and both objects can be seen from the southern hemisphere, as well as from some northern latitudes. The Small Magellanic Clou...

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Source	ESA/Hubble
Credit/Provider	ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, G. De Marchi
Short title	Head in the Clouds
Image title	A small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is pictured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The SMC is a dwarf galaxy and one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbours, lying only about 200 000 light-years from Earth. It makes a pair with the Large Magellanic Cloud, and both objects can be seen from the southern hemisphere, as well as from some northern latitudes. The Small Magellanic Cloud contains hundreds of millions of stars, but this image focuses on just a small fraction of them. These stars comprise the open cluster NGC 376, which has a total mass only about 3400 times that of the Sun. Open clusters, as the name suggests, are loosely bound and sparsely populated. This distinguishes open clusters from globular clusters, which are often so thronged with stars that they have a continuous blur of starlight at their centres. In the case of NGC 376, individual stars can be picked out clearly even in the most densely populated parts of this image. The data in this image come from two different astronomical investigations which relied on two of Hubble’s instruments: the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The first investigation used the ACS to explore a handful of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud and help astronomers explore topics including the abundance of low- and high-massstars in different environments. The second investigation used both the WFC3 and ACS, and aimed to answer fundamental questions about the lives of stars and help astronomers understand precisely where, when, why and how stars form. [Image description: A large number of bright stars, each with a cross-shape extending from its centre. In the centre there is a dense collection of foreground stars. Five are orange and the rest are blue. The black background is filled with small stars — most of them, however, larger than a single point.]
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	06:00, 5 December 2022
Software used	Adobe Photoshop 24.0 (Windows)
File change date and time	22:03, 28 November 2022
Date and time of digitizing	11:36, 30 September 2022
Date metadata was last modified	23:03, 28 November 2022
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:bbecab79-d6e5-6245-90a5-df39849a6764
Keywords	NGC 1376
Contact information	https://esahubble.org ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr Baltimore, MD, 21218 United States
IIM version	4

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