The Wishing Well Star Cluster: NGC 3532 in Carina | NASA Chandra (X-ray)
NGC 3532 (also called the “Wishing Well Cluster”) is a cluster of middle-aged stars—about 300 million years old—that covers nearly twice the size of the full Moon on the sky. X-rays from Chandra (purple and white); optical from ESO/MPG 2.2m (red, green, and blue)
This image of the NGC 3532 star cluster resembles a black canvas stippled with thousands of drops of colorful paint, flicked from an artist’s brush. From this vantage point, the stars range from minuscule to merely tiny. They range in color from white and golden yellow, to oranges, reds, blues and purples. A number of stars have white cores with colorful outlines, while others gleam and have large, translucent, outer glows. The purple and white stars are those detected in X-rays by Chandra. A faint, hazy, brick orange cloud streaks across the middle of the image.
Distance: 1,300 light years
Image Credits: Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: ESO; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major
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