Massive star cluster in our backyard - astronomically speaking!

A team of European astronomers, including several from the UK, have uncovered a super star cluster in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. This particular cluster, known as Westerlund 1, is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in our Galaxy live and die.
Super star clusters are groups of hundreds of thousands of very young stars packed into an unbelievably small volume. Until now, super star clusters were known to exist very far away, mostly in pairs or groups of interacting galaxies.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news3490.html">Massive star cluster in our backyard - astronomically speaking!</a></p> <p>A team of European astronomers, including several from the UK, have uncovered a super star cluster in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. This particular cluster, known as Westerlund 1, is a unique natural laboratory for the study of extreme stellar physics, helping astronomers to find out how the most massive stars in our Galaxy live and die. <br>Super star clusters are groups of hundreds of thousands of very young stars packed into an unbelievably small volume. Until now, super star clusters were known to exist very far away, mostly in pairs or groups of interacting galaxies.</p>