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unusual facts about Westerlund 1


Westerlund 1

The cluster contains a large number of rare, evolved, high-mass stars, including: 6 yellow hypergiants, 4 red supergiants, 24 Wolf-Rayet stars, a luminous blue variable, many OB supergiants, and an unusual supergiant sgBe star which has been proposed to be the remnant of a recent stellar merger.



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