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Deep within the dusty spiral arms of our nearest big neighbor — the Andromeda Galaxy, just a casual 2.5 million light-years away — hides one of the most spectacular star-forming powerhouses in the Local Group: the colossal stellar association NGC 206.On this razor-sharp close-up of M31’s southwestern disk, it steals the show dead center, surrounded by glowing pink nebulae where new stars are being born right now. But NGC 206 itself is the real rock star: a blazing swarm of electric-blue supergiants so young that the most massive ones are barely 10 million years old — practically newborns on the cosmic timescales.This beast spans nearly 4,000 light-years across, dwarfing any young star cluster in the Milky Way’s disk. For scale, it’s roughly the size of the monster stellar nurseries NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy and the iconic Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.In short: NGC 206 is one of the grandest stellar kindergartens in the entire Local Group, still furiously churning out brand-new suns while we watch in awe through our telescopes.
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