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Wow - was also an APOD!
Did a reverse image search on the 2nd one to find the original original source. I found some book covers, but eventually this esahubble.org press release revealed itself as at least an official source of the original image from Nov. 2005! It's NGC 346 (the star cluster) and a gorgeous backdrop of gas in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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