Re: Star Packed: Super cluster



On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 04:50:58 GMT, Sam Wormley wrote:

> [Astronomy]
> Star Packed: Super cluster is first to be detected in Milky Way
> Astronomers have detected the most massive and densest cluster
> of young stars ever detected in the Milky Way, a finding that
> could shed light on how stars formed in the early universe.


Score another one for southern skies. Looks a tad like a reversed region
in Orion, don't you think?



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