Day 8 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Sculpted by Stellar Winds
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The eighth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a young star cluster carving out space inside a vast nebula.

Dozens of bright blue stars are seen among a cloud-like ribbon of gas and dust in a distant nebula.

ESA / Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani

Day 8 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Sculpted by Stellar Winds. NGC 346 is a young star cluster about 200,000 light-years away, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This image combines Hubble observations made at infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths, showing the hot blue stars carving out a space inside the surrounding nebula of gas and dust.

See the full advent calendar here, where a new image will be revealed each day until December 25.

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