Sculpted by luminous stars 🌟⁣ ⁣ The dazzling, young stars in this cluster are artists: with the intense radiation and fierce stellar winds they produce, they sculpted the glowing pink nebula and snakelike dark clouds you see here.⁣ ⁣ This star cluster is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that lies 200,000 light-years away in the constellation Tucana. It has been studied before by NASAWebb and NASAHubble, but this image includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths into an intricately detailed view of this vibrant star-forming factory.⁣ ⁣ This “artists collective” contains more than 2,500 newborn stars. The cluster’s most massive stars, which are many times more massive than our Sun, blaze with an intense blue light in this image. Hubble was instrumental in uncovering the secrets of how these stars formed. Using two sets of observations taken 11 years apart, researchers traced...