Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows

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FOR RELEASE: 1:00 PM (EST) November 10, 2005

PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC05-35a

YOUNG STARS SCULPT GAS WITH POWERFUL OUTFLOWS

This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of one of the most
dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in
space, located 210,000 light-years away in the Small
Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
At the center of the region is a brilliant star cluster called
NGC 346. A dramatic structure of arched, ragged filaments with
a distinct ridge surrounds the cluster. The region was imaged
with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in July 2004.

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