In this new Hubble image, the open star cluster in NGC 460 shines through hazy, cocoon-like clouds of gas. ✨

Open star clusters are usually made up of young stars and can migrate into their host galaxies over time. This means that one day the stars in NGC 460 could spread out into one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away.

Image description:

Two bulbous, bluish gas clouds against a field of multicolored stars. Stars shine as brightly outside the clouds as they do inside them.

Image credits: NASA, ESA and C. Lindberg (The Johns Hopkins University); Processing by Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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