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R136 observed with WFC3
Image date: 17 March 2016, 16:00

The image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen at the lower right of the image. This cluster contains hundreds of young blue stars, among them th...
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August 28, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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The Tarantula Nebula and Super Star Cluster R136 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dpE3zM
The Tarantula Nebula, named for its appearance that somewhat resembles a giant spider in the sky, is the largest known emission nebula in the Local Group of galaxies. It is about 1000 light years wide and would appear incredibly bright if it were located in the place of the Orion Nebula. It is however located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest of the dwarf galaxies that accompany our Milky Way. In the very centre of the nebula lies R136, a super star cluster which is a very large region of star formation thought to be the precursor of a globular cluster. It is a very young cluster at only 1-2 million years and consists of giant and supergiant stars of which the majority are spectral type O3. The cluster also contains several Wolf-Rayet stars. Speculation long sorrounded the nature of the central component of the cluster, named separately as R136a, and it was once thought to be a single hypergiant star of an incredible 1500 solar masses. R136a's true nature was recently resolved by holographic speckle interferometry and found to be a dense star cluster containing very massive and luminous stars. Three extremely luminous stars (R136a1, R136a2 and R136a3) dominate this cluster and are separated by only 0.10 and 0.48 arc seconds. R136a1 is the most massive star found to date with 265 solar masses, as well as being the most luminous at 10 million times the brightness of the Sun. The entire R136 super cluster produces most of the energy that m...
September 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Voici un jeune amas d'étoiles, R136, dans notre galaxie voisine du Grand Nuage de Magellan, à 170 000 années-lumière de nous. On y trouve les étoiles les plus massives connues de l'Univers, peut-être jusque 250 fois la masse du Soleil! (© Hubble)
Des étoiles bleues par milliers, entourées de gaz en orange
April 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Star cluster R136 - wide field and planetary camera
Image date: 13 August 1990, 06:00

Credit: NASA/ESA
Source: ESA/Hubble
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September 14, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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The Tarantula Nebula and Super Star Cluster R136 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dpE3zM
The Tarantula Nebula, named for its appearance that somewhat resembles a giant spider in the sky, is the largest known emission nebula in the Local Group of galaxies. It is about 1000 light years wide and would appear incredibly bright if it were located in the place of the Orion Nebula. It is however located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest of the dwarf galaxies that accompany our Milky Way. In the very centre of the nebula lies R136, a super star cluster which is a very large region of star formation thought to be the precursor of a globular cluster. It is a very young cluster at only 1-2 million years and consists of giant and supergiant stars of which the majority are spectral type O3. The cluster also contains several Wolf-Rayet stars. Speculation long sorrounded the nature of the central component of the cluster, named separately as R136a, and it was once thought to be a single hypergiant star of an incredible 1500 solar masses. R136a's true nature was recently resolved by holographic speckle interferometry and found to be a dense star cluster containing very massive and luminous stars. Three extremely luminous stars (R136a1, R136a2 and R136a3) dominate this cluster and are separated by only 0.10 and 0.48 arc seconds. R136a1 is the most massive star found to date with 265 solar masses, as well as being the most luminous at 10 million times the brightness of the Sun. The entire R136 super cluster produces most of the energy that m...
September 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Compass and scale image for 30 Doradus
Image date: 15 December 2009, 15:00

This image spans about 100 light-years and is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in th...
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June 7, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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A Portrait of R136
Image date: 26 July 2001, 15:00

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile star-forming region, called the 30 Doradus Nebula, has a sparkling stellar ...
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June 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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The Tarantula Nebula and Super Star Cluster R136 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dpE3zM
The Tarantula Nebula, named for its appearance that somewhat resembles a giant spider in the sky, is the largest known emission nebula in the Local Group of galaxies. It is about 1000 light years wide and would appear incredibly bright if it were located in the place of the Orion Nebula. It is however located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest of the dwarf galaxies that accompany our Milky Way. In the very centre of the nebula lies R136, a super star cluster which is a very large region of star formation thought to be the precursor of a globular cluster. It is a very young cluster at only 1-2 million years and consists of giant and supergiant stars of which the majority are spectral type O3. The cluster also contains several Wolf-Rayet stars. Speculation long sorrounded the nature of the central component of the cluster, named separately as R136a, and it was once thought to be a single hypergiant star of an incredible 1500 solar masses. R136a's true nature was recently resolved by holographic speckle interferometry and found to be a dense star cluster containing very massive and luminous stars. Three extremely luminous stars (R136a1, R136a2 and R136a3) dominate this cluster and are separated by only 0.10 and 0.48 arc seconds. R136a1 is the most massive star found to date with 265 solar masses, as well as being the most luminous at 10 million times the brightness of the Sun. The entire R136 super cluster produces most of the energy that m...
October 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Tarantula Stars R136 from Webb
Images Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team https://www.nasa.gov/ https://www.esa.int/ https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/ https://www.stsci.edu/
January 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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R136 cluster
January 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Im Zentrum der Sternentstehungsregion 30 Doradus liegt ein riesiger Haufen der größten, heißesten und massereichsten Sterne, die man kennt. Diese Sterne, gemeinsam als Sternhaufen R136 bezeichnet, wurden im sichtbaren Licht von der Wide Field Camera aufgenommen.
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June 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Star Cluster R136
Image date: 13 January 1994, 06:00

These are images of 30 Doradus. The small picture shows the star cluster R136 that lies in 30 Doradus.

Credit: NASA & ESA
Source: ESA/Hubble
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February 21, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Star cluster R136 - wide field and planetary camera
Image date: 13 August 1990, 06:00

This unprocessed image, taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, yields stellar diameters of 0.1 arc second, allowing many more stars to be distinguished than in previous ground-based telescope images.

Cre...
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June 29, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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The Tarantula Nebula and Super Star Cluster R136 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dpE3zM
The Tarantula Nebula, named for its appearance that somewhat resembles a giant spider in the sky, is the largest known emission nebula in the Local Group of galaxies. It is about 1000 light years wide and would appear incredibly bright if it were located in the place of the Orion Nebula. It is however located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest of the dwarf galaxies that accompany our Milky Way. In the very centre of the nebula lies R136, a super star cluster which is a very large region of star formation thought to be the precursor of a globular cluster. It is a very young cluster at only 1-2 million years and consists of giant and supergiant stars of which the majority are spectral type O3. The cluster also contains several Wolf-Rayet stars. Speculation long sorrounded the nature of the central component of the cluster, named separately as R136a, and it was once thought to be a single hypergiant star of an incredible 1500 solar masses. R136a's true nature was recently resolved by holographic speckle interferometry and found to be a dense star cluster containing very massive and luminous stars. Three extremely luminous stars (R136a1, R136a2 and R136a3) dominate this cluster and are separated by only 0.10 and 0.48 arc seconds. R136a1 is the most massive star found to date with 265 solar masses, as well as being the most luminous at 10 million times the brightness of the Sun. The entire R136 super cluster produces most of the energy that m...
February 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This wonderful, false color image by Hubble in ultraviolet, visible, and red light shows R136, one of the most energetic star clusters known, which is the central concentration of bright blue-white stars in the candidate super star cluster NGC 2070.

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This Hubble Telescope false color image shows a cluster of hundreds of brilliant blue-white stars, surrounded by hot, glowing orange and brown clouds, resembling fluffy puffs. It is a detailed view of the star-forming region R136, in the 30 Doradus Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 170,000 light-years from Earth. The stars, some over 100 times more massive than the Sun, emit ultraviolet light and stellar winds that sculpt the surrounding gas, creating a fantastic landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys. At the center, a dark area resembles the outline of a Christmas tree. The predominant colors are the blue of the hottest stars, the green of oxygen, and the red of fluorescent hydrogen. The image, taken in October 2009, spans about 100 light-years.
July 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The Tarantula Nebula and Super Star Cluster R136 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dpE3zM
The Tarantula Nebula, named for its appearance that somewhat resembles a giant spider in the sky, is the largest known emission nebula in the Local Group of galaxies. It is about 1000 light years wide and would appear incredibly bright if it were located in the place of the Orion Nebula. It is however located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest of the dwarf galaxies that accompany our Milky Way. In the very centre of the nebula lies R136, a super star cluster which is a very large region of star formation thought to be the precursor of a globular cluster. It is a very young cluster at only 1-2 million years and consists of giant and supergiant stars of which the majority are spectral type O3. The cluster also contains several Wolf-Rayet stars. Speculation long sorrounded the nature of the central component of the cluster, named separately as R136a, and it was once thought to be a single hypergiant star of an incredible 1500 solar masses. R136a's true nature was recently resolved by holographic speckle interferometry and found to be a dense star cluster containing very massive and luminous stars. Three extremely luminous stars (R136a1, R136a2 and R136a3) dominate this cluster and are separated by only 0.10 and 0.48 arc seconds. R136a1 is the most massive star found to date with 265 solar masses, as well as being the most luminous at 10 million times the brightness of the Sun. The entire R136 super cluster produces most of the energy that m...
February 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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R136
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December 6, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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The Tarantula Nebula and Super Star Cluster R136 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dpE3zM
The Tarantula Nebula, named for its appearance that somewhat resembles a giant spider in the sky, is the largest known emission nebula in the Local Group of galaxies. It is about 1000 light years wide and would appear incredibly bright if it were located in the place of the Orion Nebula. It is however located 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest of the dwarf galaxies that accompany our Milky Way. In the very centre of the nebula lies R136, a super star cluster which is a very large region of star formation thought to be the precursor of a globular cluster. It is a very young cluster at only 1-2 million years and consists of giant and supergiant stars of which the majority are spectral type O3. The cluster also contains several Wolf-Rayet stars. Speculation long sorrounded the nature of the central component of the cluster, named separately as R136a, and it was once thought to be a single hypergiant star of an incredible 1500 solar masses. R136a's true nature was recently resolved by holographic speckle interferometry and found to be a dense star cluster containing very massive and luminous stars. Three extremely luminous stars (R136a1, R136a2 and R136a3) dominate this cluster and are separated by only 0.10 and 0.48 arc seconds. R136a1 is the most massive star found to date with 265 solar masses, as well as being the most luminous at 10 million times the brightness of the Sun. The entire R136 super cluster produces most of the energy that m...
May 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Star Birth in 30 Dorado|NASA|
This image of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm glowing clouds is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun. The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years. The nebula is close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual stars, giving astronomers important information about the birth and evolution of stars in the universe. Credit: NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee
December 15, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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SPACE/R136.GIF
June 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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At the centre of the Tarantula is an extraordinary OB association NGC 2070 including R136, an extremely compact cluster of hot, young stars that produces most of the energy that makes the nebula visible.

R136 contains a population of stars in excess of 100 solar masses,...

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March 10, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Here's the JWST image of 30 Doradus with Chandra X-rays added in blue! Look at that hot gas from stellar winds filling all those cavities! From chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/3... #astronomy 🔭🧪
Chandra X-rays in blue, JWST in red and white, of the central star cluster powering 30 Doradus, R136.
November 20, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Im Zentrum von 30 Doradus liegt ein riesiger Haufen der größten, heißesten und massereichsten Sterne. Das Zentrum dieses Haufens, bekannt als R136 ist im oberen rechten Teil des Bildes eingerahmt. Gas und der Staub sind hauptsächlich ionisierter Wasserstoff aus dem Emissionsnebel 30 Doradus
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May 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Im Zentrum der Sternentstehungsregion 30 Doradus liegt ein riesiger Haufen der größten heißesten, massereichsten bekannten Sterne die als Sternhaufen R136 bekannten Sterne und ein Teil des umgebenden Nebels sind auf den prächtigen Bild des Hubble-Weltraumteleskops im sichtbaren Licht zu sehen
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July 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Im Zentrum der Sternentstehungsregion 30 Doradus liegt ein riesiger Haufen der größten heißesten und massereichsten bekannten Sterne diese als Sternhaufen R136 bekannten Sterne und ein Teil des umgebenden Nebels sind auf diesem wunderschönen Bild im sichtbaren Licht des Hubble-Teleskops zu sehen
August 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM