Small Magellanic Cloud (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Small Magellanic Cloud

Caption

This is a ground-based telescopic photo of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The galaxy is one of several targets for Hubble's ULLYSES program, which is looking at over 300 stars to build an ultraviolet-light catalog for capturing the diversity of stars, from young to old. The target stars are from Hubble archival observations (yellow circles) and new observations (blue circles).

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NASA, ESA, J. Roman-Duval (STScI), ULLYSES program, and S. Guisard

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