{"id":112727,"date":"2024-10-11T01:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112727"},"modified":"2024-10-11T01:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:21:46","slug":"this-dazzling-nasa-image-shows-the-biggest-super-star-cluster-in-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112727","title":{"rendered":"This dazzling NASA image shows the biggest super star cluster in our galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-webb-telescopes-dazzling-nebula-image-supports-a-long-held-theory-210229206.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:James Webb Space Telescope;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> continues to capture images of space that are clearer and more detailed than what we&#8217;ve seen before. One of the latest images it has taken is of a &#8220;super star cluster&#8221; called Westerlund 1, and it <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/esawebb.org\/images\/potm2409a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shows an abundant collection;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shows an abundant collection<\/a> of heavenly bodies, shining brightly like gemstones. Super star clusters are young clusters of stars thousands of times bigger than our sun that are all packed in a small area. Our galaxy used to produce more clusters billions of years ago, but it doesn&#8217;t churn out as many stars anymore, and only a few super star clusters still exist in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>Westerlund 1 is the biggest remaining super star cluster in our galaxy, and it&#8217;s also the closest to our planet. It&#8217;s located 12,000 light-years away, made up of massive stars between 50,000 and 100,000 times the mass of our sun within a region that measures six light-years across. Those stars include yellow hypergiants that are around a million times brighter than our sun, as well. Since the stars populating the cluster have a comparatively short life, scientists believe it&#8217;s only around 3.5 to 5 million years old. That&#8217;s pretty young in the cosmic scale. As such, it&#8217;s a valuable source of data that could help us better understand how massive stars form and eventually die. We won&#8217;t be around to see it, but the cluster is expected to produce 1,500 supernovae in less than 40 million years.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers captured an image of the super star cluster as part of an ongoing survey of Westerlund 1 and another cluster called Westerlund 2 to study star formation and evolution. To take the image, they used Webb&#8217;s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), which was also recently used to capture a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/nasas-latest-supernova-image-could-tell-us-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding-130005672.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:gravitationally lensed supernova;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">gravitationally lensed supernova<\/a> that could help shed light on how fast our universe is expanding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/space\/this-dazzling-nasa-image-shows-the-biggest-super-star-cluster-in-our-galaxy-120053279.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope continues to capture images of space that are clearer and more detailed than what we&#8217;ve seen before. 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