Our next #StarrySights image shows a cosmic youngster... at a whopping 10 million years old!
NGC 1858 is both an open cluster and an emission nebula. Astronomers believe that star formation within this cluster is ongoing or has very recently occurred: https://go.nasa.gov/3FnGAjI #Hubble
This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way that boasts an abundance of star-forming regions.
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