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We won't be around to see it, but the cluster is expected to produce 1,500 supernovae in less than 40 million years. Astronomers captured an image of the super star cluster as part of an ongoing ...
A new image shows Westerlund 1, the largest and closest super star cluster to Earth, in stunning detail. It's a bird... it's a plane... it's a super star cluster! NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope ...
Picture of the month: The European Space Agency has shared a dazzling image of Westerlund 1, a super star cluster situated around 12,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara.
A dazzling new image produced using both the James Webb ... which scientists expect will combine at point to form an even larger cluster, is located about 4.3 billion light years from Earth ...
Around this time last year, NASA released an image of NGC 2264, another star cluster known for its resemblance to holiday greenery which was aptly named "Christmas tree cluster." Data collected ...
But this cluster, named SPT2349 ... of the early formation mechanisms of this class of object. A false-color image of the far-infrared emission from a massive protocluster of galaxies (in the ...
It's the ultimate example of a "super star cluster." While most such clusters ... star cluster are visible at the top and center of the image. The bright stars in JWST's image all have six large ...