Super star cluster

Super star clusters are huge star clusters of very young large stars. They are thought to be precursors of globular clusters.^[1] Their short-lived huge blue stars emit lots of UV radiation which ionises the surrounding gas. Examples are Westerlund 1 and 2 in the Milky Way, and R136 in the Larger Magellanic Cloud. Nearby galaxy NGC 1569 has two SSCs.

Super Star Cluster Media

This image shows the star cluster "Westerlund 1" in infrared light as observed by the 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS). The field of view is approximately twice as large the Chandra image.*Scale: Image is 13 arcmin per side
NGC 3603 is a starburst region : a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula’s extended clouds of gas and dust. Located 22,000 light-years away from the Sun, it is the closest region of this kind known in our galaxy, providing astronomers with a local test bed for studying the intense star formation processes, very common in other galaxies, but hard to observe in detail because of their large distance.*The newly released image, obtained with the FORS instrument attached to one of the four 8.2-metre VLT Unit Telescopes at Cerro Paranal, Chile, is a three-colour combination of exposures acquired through visible and near-infrared (V, R, I) filters.
Located inside the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – one of our closest galaxies – in what some describe as a frightening sight, the Tarantula nebula is worth looking at in detail. Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, the nebula owes its name to the arrangement of its bright patches that somewhat resemble the legs of a tarantula.
R136 (Located in the Tarantula Nebula)
A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 346.
Galaxy NGC 1569 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Starburst in a Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
A Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy

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