Fraser Cain on Nostr: You can tell this is an image from JWST because of the classic 6-pointed diffraction ...
You can tell this is an image from JWST because of the classic 6-pointed diffraction spikes. So what are we looking at? This is the open cluster Westerlund 1, located about 12,000 light-years away. It's unique in the Milky Way with a large, dense collection of massive stars. Each one of the stars you can see in this picture is a monster, some as bright as a million suns. These stars should go supernova within just a few million years, so we know the cluster is young.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/10/The_exotic_stellar_population_of_Westerlund_1 
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