Nearby Massive Star Cluster
Date: 24 July 1998
Satellite: Hubble
Depicts: Star Cluster N81
Copyright: Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Paris Observatory, France), and NASA/ESA
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A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200 000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small irregular satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
Last Update: 1 September 2019