Westerlund 2
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westerlund-2-301-18210919
title:
Westerlund 2
text:
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 naked eye Cepheid variable V399 Carinae.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Open star cluster in the Carina constellation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerlund_2
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date modified:
2023-11-26T13:32:50Z
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13
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