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This illustration shows the Westerlund 2 image and the 3D Tactile print derived from the HST data. Three prints are available: Upper half of the W2 3D print, Lower half of the W2 3D print, and the 3D print with No Split.

The tactile print was provided by the 3D Astronomy Project at STScI which makes star cluster and galaxy imagery available in 3D tactile representations outfitted with textures to distinguish specific features in the celestial object. The 3D prints are produced through an innovative process (Christian et al 2015, Grice et al 2015) for the star clusters Westerlund 2 (Zeidler 2015), NGC602 and others as well as several galaxies. 

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