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Westerlund 1 is a massive cluster of young stars located in our Milky Way galaxy. This super star cluster has more than 10,000 times our Sun’s mass, and it contains a larger number of rare stars than many other clusters.

Though it’s the closest, largest, and most luminous cluster in the galaxy, Westerlund 1 actually isn’t visible to the unaided eye. It’s surrounded by thick clouds of gas and dust. Many space- and ground-based telescopes have peered at cosmic activities occurring in Westerlund 1 in various wavelengths of light. For example, recently our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope helped astronomers trace a budding outflow of gas pouring out from Westerlund 1.

Image credits:

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team

ESA/Hubble & NASA

ESO

NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

NASA/CXC/INAF/M. Guarcello et al.; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Lemoine-Goumard et al. 2025

Music: “Underwater,” Laswell, Ambient Dreams

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Story and individual images can be found [here](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14930/){target=_blank}. Visual description: 0:00 The sparkling stars of Westerlund 1 fill the screen with shimmering, colorful dots in an infrared view from @NASAWebb. The brightest have thin spikes of light extending from them, many of which overlap. 0:02 The text “Westerlund 1: Multiwavelength” appears. 0:09 The cluster of stars shines brightly in light blue in the shape of a footprint, with a smaller number of stars marked with spikes of light in an optical and infrared view from @NASAHubble. 0:14 The optical and infrared view from the Wide Field Imager on the European Southern Observatory’s MPG/ESO ground-based telescope shows a slightly fuzzier look at the star cluster, now appearing in shades of orange and red. 0:19 An optical view from Hubble shows a rainbow of stars with a handful that appear brighter and orb-like. 0:24 Stars dot a bright pink cloud surrounded by an orange glow and a small ball of teal and blue near the bottom in the X-ray view from @NASAChandraXray. 0:29 The image of Westerlund 1 then spins and zooms out to the gamma-ray view from Fermi. At the center is a bright orange blob shaped roughly like a bowling pin. It is surrounded by layers of red-orange and purple against a dark background. 0:35 The video fades to black with a NASA insignia.
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