Quick Look: 'Super' Star Cluster Shines in New Look From NASA's Chandra
Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth.
Billions of years ago, most stars in the Milky Way formed in clusters like this.
Today astronomers study Westerlund 1 and others like it to peek back in history.
This image contains 12 days’ worth of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
More at: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/wd1