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The Lynx arc is 1 million times brighter than the well-known Orion Nebula, a nearby prototypical star-birth region visible with small telescopes. The newly identified megastar-birth cluster contains a million blue-white stars that are twice as hot as similar stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The megastar cluster was detected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, as a gravitationally magnified smear in light embedded in an image of a relatively nearby galaxy cluster.
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About the Video
| Id: | heic0312j |
| Release date: | 30 October 2003, 15:00 |
| Related release: | heic0312 |
| Duration: | 09s |
About the Object
| Type: | • Hubble Images Videos • Star Clusters Images/Videos • Cosmology Images/Videos |
