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Zooming in on the massive compact star cluster in NGC 3603

May 31, 2010 · ESA/Hubble

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Starting from the magnificent vista of the southern Milky Way we gradually zoom in on the huge star formation region NGC 3603 ending with an extreme close-up of the core of the central star cluster taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) camera on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.