{"id":513380,"date":"2026-06-01T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/513380\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:09:07","slug":"pretty-in-pink-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/513380\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty in Pink &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image of Westerlund 2 released on March 19, 2026, features <a href=\"https:\/\/chandra.si.edu\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> data (pink) and infrared data from NASA\u2019S James Webb Space Telescope (red, orange, green, cyan, and blue). Scores of gleaming stars ringed in neon pink stretch across the frame, highlighting a cluster where stars are between one and three million years old. Brick-orange dust clouds along the bottom edge illustrate the raw materials of this active stellar nursery.<\/p>\n<p>Westerlund 2 resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasawebbtelescope\/54999783655\/in\/photolist-2aKVm4N-2qkB15Q-2roPEXZ-2rN9gvZ-2sd6qHf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">See a different view of Westerlund 2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/Sejong Univ.\/Hur et al; JWST: ESA\/Webb, NASA &amp; CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team. Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare and K. Arcand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This image of Westerlund 2 released on March 19, 2026, features Chandra X-ray Observatory data (pink) and infrared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[11770,18,19,17,133,451,42129],"class_list":["post-513380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-chandra-x-ray-observatory","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space","tag-star-clusters"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116676195986342856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}