NGC 602 is a star cluster that lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. This image combines X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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