{"id":285431,"date":"2025-09-17T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=d71f76a029734bc6f77da4c8c7a49952"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:40:15","slug":"an-eye-catching-star-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=285431","title":{"rendered":"An Eye-catching Star Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54735875999-125f41fdb7-o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54735875999-125f41fdb7-o.jpg?w=864\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Scores of gleaming white orbs and tiny specks pack the blackness of space, surrounded by a purple haze, and mottled golden clouds.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54735875999-125f41fdb7-o.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54735875999-125f41fdb7-o.jpg?resize=300,274 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54735875999-125f41fdb7-o.jpg?resize=768,702 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54735875999-125f41fdb7-o.jpg?resize=400,366 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54735875999-125f41fdb7-o.jpg?resize=600,549 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Optical: NASA\/ESA\/STScI; IR: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI; Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest \u201csuper\u201d star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This view combines x-ray data from <a href=\"https:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> (in pink, blue, purple, and orange), infrared data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (in yellow, gold, and blue), and optical data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope (in cyan, grey, and light yellow).<\/p>\n<p>Data from Chandra and other telescopes is helping astronomers delve deeper into this galactic factory where stars are vigorously being produced. Observations from Chandra have uncovered thousands of individual stars pumping out X-ray emission into the cluster.<\/p>\n<p>This image is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/photo\/2025\/cosmic\/\" rel=\"noopener\">compilation of images featuring data from Chandra<\/a> along with a host of other telescopes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO; Optical: NASA\/ESA\/STScI; IR: NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STScI; Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest \u201csuper\u201d star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This view combines x-ray data from NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in pink, blue, purple, and orange), infrared data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (in yellow, gold, and blue), and optical data from NASA\u2019s Hubble [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15670,15776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chandra-x-ray-observatory","category-star-clusters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285495,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285431\/revisions\/285495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}