<ul><li>The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 light-years away from the Milky Way.</li><li>The Small Magellanic Cloud is visible without the need for a telescope or binoculars from certain latitudes, resembling a broken-off piece of the Milky Way.</li><li>Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 was used to capture a detailed and vivid image of the Small Magellanic Cloud, showing dust clouds drifting across a field of stars.</li><li>The captured region is near NGC 346, a star cluster that houses numerous massive young stars.</li></ul>

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