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NASA Unveils Celestial Fireworks as Official Hubble 25th Anniversary Image
2015-02-24
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/12/image/a/warn/ (image source); see also http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1509a/
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
The star cluster Westerlund 2 in the Milky Way galaxy, 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.
