The title of this photo is titled Young Star Cluster Westerlund 2 for the week of January 31. The Sptizer Space Telescope captured this brilliant image of Westerlund 2 using infrared cameras. The enormous dust cloud that encompasses W2 is given the name of RCW 49. The purple color being emitted from this cluster is actually false color coming from the star clusters. The Westerlund 2 cluster can be seen by looking in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. The distance to this cluster is calculated to be 20,000 light-years.
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