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Westerlund 2 is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina. These stars sculpt the surrounding nebula, carving out a cavity lined with a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys. The pillars, composed of dense gas and dust, are incubators for new stars. They are a few light-years tall and point to the central star cluster.

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A star cluster surrounded by a colorful nebula. In the center is a roughly circular cluster of thousands of stars seen as white and red points of light, some with Hubble's characteristic 4-pointed diffraction spikes. Surrounding the cluster is a nebula in shades of white, purple, red, blue and brown. The nebula is densest on the left half of the frame. The stars have carved a spherical cavity into the gas and dust of the nebula, causing the inner shell of the nebula to glow. Protruding from the inner edge of the cavity are several irregular, column-like pillars of dense gas and dust, which point to the central star cluster.
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