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Little Galaxy Explored

The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the bar on the left and a wing extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. In addition, the image contains a galactic globular cluster in the lower left (blue cluster of stars) and emission from dust in our own galaxy (green in the upper right and lower right corners). ASU-IPF-3061

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Uploaded on February 4, 2010
Taken circa 2010