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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RICHARD INGHAM
This handout picture released on May 13, 2014 by the European Southern Observatory shows a wide-field view from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 centred on the star cluster Westerlund 1 in the constellation of Ara (The Altar). This cluster appears as a dense orange clump at the centre of the picture. It is very young and contains massive and brilliant hot blue stars, but their light is much reduced and reddened by a dense cloud of dust between the cluster and the Earth. Astronomers said on May 14, 2014 they may have found the answer to a cosmic riddle called the magnetar -- a star so dense that just a teaspoonful of it would have a mass of about a billion tonnes. Magnetars are mysterious phenomena whose magnetic fields are millions of times greater than that of the Earth. AFP PHOTO / ESO Digitized Sky Survey 2 - Davide De Martin
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