This new image taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud. At the heart of the star-forming region lies star cluster NGC 602.

The Small Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Tucana is roughly 200,000 lightyears from the Earth. Its proximity to us makes it an exceptional laboratory to perform in-depth studies of star formation processes and their evolution in an environment slightly different from our own Milky Way. In this image you will observe several spirial galaxies in the background.