Editing NGC 3603 (section)

{{Short description|Open cluster in the constellation Carina}}

{{Infobox nebula
 |name          = NGC 3603
 |image         = [[File:Stellar nursery NGC 3603.jpg|300px]]
 |caption       = NGC 3603 in visible and near infrared light
 |credit        =
 |type          = Giant molecular cloud
 |type2         = [[H II region]]
 |epoch         = [[J2000]]
 |subtype       =
 |class         =
 |ra            = {{RA|11|15|23}}<ref name=kharchenko2013>{{cite journal|bibcode=2013A&A...558A..53K|title=Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way. II. The catalogue of basic parameters|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|volume=558|pages=A53|last1=Kharchenko|first1=N. V.|last2=Piskunov|first2=A. E.|last3=Schilbach|first3=E.|last4=Röser|first4=S.|last5=Scholz|first5=R.-D.|year=2013|doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201322302|arxiv = 1308.5822 |s2cid=118548517 }}</ref>
 |dec           = {{DEC|-61|15|00}}<ref name=kharchenko2013/>
 |dist_ly       =
 |dist_pc       = 6,900<ref name=pang2013>{{cite journal|bibcode=2013ApJ...764...73P|title=On the Origin of Mass Segregation in NGC 3603|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=764|issue=1|pages=73|last1=Pang|first1=Xiaoying|last2=Grebel|first2=Eva K.|last3=Allison|first3=Richard J.|last4=Goodwin|first4=Simon P.|last5=Altmann|first5=Martin|last6=Harbeck|first6=Daniel|last7=Moffat|first7=Anthony F. J.|last8=Drissen|first8=Laurent|year=2013|doi=10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/73|arxiv = 1212.4566 |s2cid=119199840 }}</ref>
 |dist_z        =
 |appmag_v      = 9.1<ref name=ngc>{{cite journal|bibcode=1988cngc.book.....S|title=The complete new general catalogue and index catalogues of nebulae and star clusters by J. L. E. Dreyer|journal=Cambridge: Sky Publishing Corporation and Cambridge University Press|last1=Sinnott|first1=Roger W.|year=1988}}</ref>
 |appdia        = 12.0'<ref name=ngc/>
 |size_v        =
 |constellation = Carina
 |radius_ly     =
 |radius_pc     =
 |dimensions    =
 |absmag_v      =
 |notes         =
 |names         = [[Gum Nebula|Gum]] 38b, [[Collinder catalogue|Collinder]] 244
}}
'''NGC 3603''' is a [[nebula]] situated in the [[Carina–Sagittarius Arm]] of the [[Milky Way]] around 20,000 [[light-year]]s away from the [[Solar System]].  It is a massive [[H II region]] containing a very compact [[open cluster]] (probably a [[super star cluster]]) [[HD 97950]].