It may be famous for hosting spectacular sights such as the Tucana Dwarf Galaxy and 47 Tucanae (heic1510), the second brightest globular Cluster in the night sky, but the southern constellation of Tucana (The Toucan) also possesses a variety of unsung cosmic beauties. NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away. Open  clusters such as this are collections of stars...

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