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There should be....being an irregular, it should have quite a bit of gas and dust. The red bits are HII regions within the galaxy. If I remember correctly, the SMC has had 2-3 bouts of star formation, the last one being about 1Ga ago. The major one...when both it and the LMC got a little too close to one another and the Milky Way, was about 6Ga ago.
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