NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Discovered on Sept. 5, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, this nebula is located in one of the Milky Way's closest galactic companions, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).
Hubble traces star formation in nearby nebula NGC 261 retrieved 28 August 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-08-hubble-star-formation-nearby-nebula.html
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