Hubble and VLT discover spiraling structure of young stars, hints at star formation in early universe

Published by NASASpaceflight on 09/18/2022

In a recently released study, data from the joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Observatory’s (ESO) ground-based Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been used to discover young stars spiraling into the center of a star cluster within the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.