Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a deep drive into a highly intriguing and massive young stellar cluster in the Milky Way. It's called Westerlund 1. Located around 12,000 light years from Earth, Westerlund 1 is also the closest supermassive star cluster to us.
Supermassive star clusters like Westerlund 1 are groupings of stars that contain masses equivalent to tens of thousands of suns. In these superclusters, the processes that favor star-forming environments and boost the births of stars and planets are extremely efficient.
