Near and mid-IR views of the new GC. Top: wide field JHKs mosaic covering the VVV tiles b359 to b361, showing the positions of Minni 48 compared with those of the two well-known GCs: HP 1 and Terzan 2. This field, covering approximately 1.5° ×4°, is oriented along Galactic coordinates, with longitudes increasing to the left and latitudes to the top. Bottom: zoomed-in view of a 20′×20′ region centred on Minni 48 obtained with WISE in the mid-IR (3.6–8 microns). There is a clear concentration of bright IR stars in the cluster core. The white box shows the location of the zoomed-in images portrayed in Fig. 2.