The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of the closest galaxy cluster to Earth, located in the Milky Way.
Experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) have unveiled a new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The image features Westerlund 1, the largest and closest supercluster to Earth in the Milky Way, located approximately 12,000 light-years away from our planet.
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The unique feature of Westerlund 1 lies in its large, dense, and diverse population of massive stars, which is unmatched in other clusters of the Milky Way. It hosts a full range of star classifications: from Wolf-Rayet astronomical objects to yellow hypergiants.
Westerlund 1 contains so many massive stars that astronomers believe over 1500 supernovae will explode within a period of less than 40 million years.