The researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe Westerlund 1, a so-called super star cluster with hundreds of very massive and potentially thousands of lower-mass young ...

Westerlund 1 is the biggest remaining super star cluster in our galaxy, and it's also the closest to our planet. It's located 12,000 light-years away, made up of massive stars between 50,000 and ...

Science News: NEW DELHI: Westerlund 1, the largest and nearest 'super' star cluster to Earth, is being closely observed with new data from Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Obse.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular star cluster NGC 6652 ...

Since the stars populating the cluster have a comparatively short life, scientists believe it's only around 3.5 to 5 million years old. That's pretty young in the cosmic scale.

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that is "super" in every way. Westerlund 1 is super-large, super-massive, super-young, super-close — and it is creating stars at a super ...