Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Tucana (Tuc)  ·  Contains:  NGC 330  ·  NGC 346  ·  NGC 361  ·  NGC 362  ·  NGC 371  ·  NGC 411
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NGC 362 & Friends in the SMC, Andy 01
NGC 362 & Friends in the SMC
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NGC 362 & Friends in the SMC

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NGC 362 & Friends in the SMC, Andy 01
NGC 362 & Friends in the SMC
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NGC 362 & Friends in the SMC

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Overshadowed by its more famous neighbour 47 Tuc, NGC 362 is a young Globular cluster, located in the constellation Tucana in the Southern Hemisphere, slightly north of the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Pictured also is the blueish NGC 346, and its many Ha-rich nebulous companions, which resemble cherry blossoms in spring.
NGC 346 is the brightest star-forming region in the neighbouring Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, some 210,000 light-years away from Earth.

Narrowband data taken from my light-polluted backyard in Suburban Melbourne, Australia.
Broadband from Bortle 1 dark site at the Nhill, VicSouth star party in the Australian desert.

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