NGC 602
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ngc-602-168-2030057
title:
NGC 602
text:
NGC 602 is a young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It was discovered on 1 August 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. It is embedded in a nebula known as N90. Radiation and shock waves from the stars of NGC 602 have pushed away much of the lighter surrounding gas and dust that is N90, and this in turn has triggered new star formation in the ridges of the nebula. These even younger, pre-main sequence stars are st
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Open cluster in the constrellation Hydrus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_602
date created:
2007-01-09T16:12:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T21:10:48Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q913082","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q913082"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/NGC602.jpg","width":3749,"height":3659}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16