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Lynx Arc Zoom and Blend to Artist’s Illustration

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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.
      • Release Date
        October 30, 2003
      • Science Release
        Megastar-Birth Cluster is Biggest, Brightest and Hottest Ever Seen
      • Credits
        ESA, Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre (M. Kornmesser and L.L. Christensen), and NASA

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      Mar 14, 2025
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      Claire Andreoli
      NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
      Greenbelt, Maryland
      claire.andreoli@nasa.gov