X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth,…
The IAU (International Astronomical Union), an international non-governmental research organization and global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official…
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