Zooming in on Massive Compact Star Cluster in NGC 3603 | Hubble

Zooming in on Massive Compact Star Cluster in NGC 3603 | Hubble

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.

Credit: NASA, ESA and Wolfgang Brandner (MPIA), Boyke Rochau (MPIA) and Andrea Stolte (University of Cologne)

Acknowledgement: Robert Gendler, Martin Pugh, Astromania de Yave

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: February 17, 2016

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