Astronomers have observed a “spiral star cluster” of young stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, “a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.”
This discovery presents how the birth of stars evolved early in the history of the universe, when it was going through the baby boom of stars, 3 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe is now 13.8 billion years old.
Astronomers named the new star cluster, which feeds the young stars around it, with gas “NGC 346”.
The Small Magellanic Cloud has a chemical composition that is less strong and durable than the chemical composition of the Milky Way, for example, the heavy chemical elements in Magellan are much rarer than in our galaxy, so the stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud burn faster and run out of fuel more than in the Small Magellanic Cloud Our galaxy is the Milky Way, and this makes it important in studying the evolution of the universe.
The Small Magellanic Cloud is located 200,000 light years from Earth.
The discovery showed that the process of star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud is similar to that in our Milky Way.
Astronomers stated that the star cluster is 150 light-years in diameter and has twice the mass of the Sun.