Sunny Priyan
NGC 460 in the Small Magellanic Cloud reveals young star clusters shaping glowing gas clouds and nebulae, where stellar winds and radiation trigger new star formation.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and C. Lindberg
NGC 460 lies in a young region of stellar clusters and nebulae, home to brilliant O-type main-sequence stars—the hottest, brightest, and most massive hydrogen-burning stars like our Sun.
Image Credit: Freepik
The NGC 460 cluster, located in region N83, likely formed when two hydrogen clouds collided, creating rare O-type stars and bright nebulae—just a few among 20,000 in the Milky Way.
Image Credit: Freepik
Open clusters like NGC 460, loosely bound by gravity, contain young stars that may gradually drift outward into their galaxies over time.
Image Credit: Freepik
NGC 460's stars may eventually disperse into the Small Magellanic Cloud, a bright galactic neighbor 200,000 light-years away.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and C. Lindberg
This 65-megapixel Hubble mosaic shows how gravity and galactic interactions trigger star formation in the interstellar medium-zoom into the 400 MB file to explore.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and C. Lindberg