Glowing Nebula NGC 248 in The Small Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Glowing Nebula NGC 248 in The Small Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

This glowing nebula, named NGC 248, is located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and about 200,000 light-years from Earth. The nebula was observed with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in September 2015, as part of a survey called the Small Magellanic cloud Investigation of Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE).

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team

Release Date: December 20, 2016

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