Petal Pixel
By Jeremy Gray
October 12, 2023
Among the James Webb Space Telescope’s many scientific objectives are providing astronomers and physicists unprecedented looks at areas where stars are being born. These stellar nurseries are not only of great scientific importance, but they are also visually spectacular.
Webb’s latest target is NGC 346, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Located about 210,000 light-years from Earth in the Tucana constellation, NGC 346 was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop.