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Cecilia Scorza, EU-UNAWE Germany

Fresh Look at a Young Star Cluster

This photograph shows a patch of our Galaxy that contains a cluster of hundreds of young, close together stars. By studying this cluster and its cousins elsewhere in the Milky Way astronomers can learn more about the Milky Way and how stars form. 

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ESO/G. Beccari

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