{"id":23905,"date":"2020-12-01T05:50:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23905"},"modified":"2020-12-01T05:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T05:50:25","slug":"ngc-346-star-forming-cluster-in-the-smc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23905","title":{"rendered":"NGC 346: Star Forming Cluster in the SMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2012\/Ngc346_HubbleSchmidt_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Are stars still forming in the Milky Way&#8217;s satellite galaxies? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud&#8217;s (SMC&#8217;s) clusters and nebulas, NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured here in the center of a Hubble Space Telescope image. A satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a wonder of the southern sky, a mere 210,000 light-years distant in the constellation of the Toucan (Tucana). Exploring NGC 346, astronomers have identified a population of embryonic stars strung along the dark, intersecting dust lanes visible here on the right. Still collapsing within their natal clouds, the stellar infants&#8217; light is reddened by the intervening dust. Toward the top of the frame is another star cluster with intrinsically older and redder stars. A small, irregular galaxy, the SMC itself represents a type of galaxy more common in the early Universe. These small galaxies, though, are thought to be building blocks for the larger galaxies present today. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap201201.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are stars still forming in the Milky Way&#8217;s satellite galaxies? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud&#8217;s (SMC&#8217;s) clusters and nebulas, NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23905\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23906,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905\/revisions\/23906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}