star cluster Westerlund 1, (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik

star cluster Westerlund 1,

Caption

Fig. 1: An image of the star cluster Westerlund 1, captured with the Near-InfraRed Camera on NASA’s James Webb’s Space Telescope. The cluster is largely hidden at visible wavelengths by dust clouds, which infrared light penetrates.

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Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team

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