Westerlund 2 is an obscured compact young star cluster in the
Milky Way with an estimated age of about one or two million years. It contains some of the hottest, brightest, and most massive stars known. The cluster resides inside a
stellar breeding ground known as
Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation
Carina. It is half a degree from the
Cepheid variable
V399 Carinae.Photograph:
NASA/
ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/et al.
Westerlund 2 is an obscured compact young star cluster in the
Milky Way with an estimated age of about one or two million years. It contains some of the hottest, brightest, and most massive stars known. The cluster resides inside a
stellar breeding ground known as
Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation
Carina. It is half a degree from the
Cepheid variable
V399 Carinae.Photograph:
NASA/
ESA/Hubble Heritage Team/et al.