Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Tucana (Tuc)  ·  Contains:  IC 1611  ·  IC 1612  ·  NGC 346
NGC 346 in HaORGB, Utkarsh mishra
NGC 346 in HaORGB
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NGC 346 in HaORGB, Utkarsh mishra
NGC 346 in HaORGB
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The massive stars of NGC 346 are short lived, but very energetic. The star cluster is embedded in the largest star forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, some 210,000 light-years distant. Their winds and radiation sweep out an interstellar cavern in the gas and dust cloud about 200 light-years across, triggering star formation and sculpting the region's dense inner edge. Cataloged as N66, the star forming region also appears to contain a large population of infant stars.

image credit copyright ; Utkarsh mishra, Michael petrasko , Muir Evenden, franck Jobard

shot from 12"f9 RC in Chile cam - STl11000m

around 19 hrs of imaging time

image processing - Utkarsh Mishra

PS-PI used a lot of advance own developed methods

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NGC 346 in HaORGB, Utkarsh mishra