Hubble Spots Spiraling Stars | NASA Goddard

Hubble Spots Spiraling Stars | NASA Goddard

Nature likes spirals—from the whirlpool of a hurricane, to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of spiral galaxies across our universe. 

Now astronomers are bemused to find young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble 

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Paul Morris: Lead Producer 

Duration: 1 minute, 29 seconds

Release Date: September 8, 2022

#NASA #ESA #Hubble #Astronomy #Space #Science #Stars #StarCluster #NGC346 #Spirals #SmallMagellanicCloud #SMC #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceTelescope #STScI #GSFC #UnitedStates #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video