NGC 3603-C is a single-lined spectroscopic binary star system located at the centre of the HD 97950 cluster in the NGC 3603 star-forming region, about 25,000 light years from Earth. The primary has spectral type WN6h and is among the most luminous and most massive known.
C is the brightest star to the left of the very close A (three not quite resolved stars at the very centre of the image) and B pair at the centre in this HST image of the central region of HD 97950. Credit: NASA, ESA and Wolfgang Brandner (MPIA), Boyke Rochau (MPIA) and Andrea Stolte (University of Cologne)
HD 97950, is the central core of a super star cluster within the NGC 3603 H II region. It was catalogued as a single star, but has now been resolved into one of the densest clusterings of stars in the galaxy.
HST image of the HD 97950 cluster
The core of the cluster, with A1/2/3 at the very centre, and B and C to its left