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= Westerlund 2
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Westerlund 2 is an open star cluster located in the constellation Carina. It is situated about 20,000 light-years away from Earth and is believed to be relatively young, with an estimated age of around 2 to 4 million years. The cluster is named after the Swedish astronomer Bo Westerlund, who studied it in the 1960s.