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Westerlund 1 (ESO Wide Field Imager)

It's only less than 6 light years across, contains a thousand stars, is only 10,000 light-years away and has a mass of 100,000 times our sun. Its stars are sometimes as big as Saturn's orbit, it's the densest star cluster known and is called Westerlund 1.

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/images/phot-09a-05-normal.jpg


Raoul

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