Festive nebulae
Date: 19 December 2016
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: NGC 248
Copyright: NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team
This glowing nebula, named NGC 248, is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about 200 000 light-years from Earth. The nebula was observed with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in September 2015, as part of a survey called the Small Magellanic cloud Investigation of Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE).
Last Update: 1 September 2019
