It's called Westerlund 1. Located around 12,000 light years from Earth, Westerlund 1 is also the closest supermassive star cluster to us. Supermassive star clusters like Westerlund 1 are groupings ...

Furthermore, the study found that Westerlund 1 has a velocity dispersion of approximately 3.42 km/s, which is smaller than ...

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It's the ultimate example of a "super star cluster." While most such clusters are about 10,000 times the sun's mass, Westerlund 1 is 50,000 to 100,000 times the solar mass. Some of its hundreds of ...

This beautiful Hubble image reveals a young super star cluster known as Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, yet home to one of the largest stars ever discovered.

This particular cluster, known as Westerlund 1, is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in our Galaxy ...

It is known as "Westerlund 1" and is a thousand times closer than any other super star cluster known so far. It is close enough that astronomers may now probe its structure in some detail.

There are more than two dozen magnetars in the Milky Way, but the one studied by the VLT, is located in the Westerlund 1 star cluster in the southern constellation of Ara, some 16,000 light-years ...

But in the Westerlund 1 star cluster, located 16,000 light years away in the constellation Ara, a star that size collapsed and formed what is known as a magnetar, a type of neutron star with a ...

The Westerlund 1 star cluster, located 16,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Ara the Altar, hosts one of the two dozen magnetars known in the Milky Way. It is called CXOU J164710.2 ...