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NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2005-12-12: 30 Doradus: The Tarantula Zone
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The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years across - a giant emission nebula within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. Inside this cosmic arachnid lies a central young cluster of massive stars, cataloged as R136, whose intense radiation and strong winds have helped energize the nebular glow and shape the spidery filaments. In this impressive color mosaic of images from the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, other young star clusters can be seen still within the nebula's grasp. Also notable among the denizens of the Tarantula zone are several dark clouds, sprawling wispy filaments of gas, compact emission nebula, nearly spherical supernova remnants, and areas surrounding hot stars known as superbubbles. The rich mosaic's field of view covers an area on the sky about the size of the full moon in the southern constellation Dorado.
September 19, 2026 at 7:20 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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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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Cette région évoque un récif corallien, érodé par les puissantes étoiles de R136 qui l'entourent. 🌌✨

#Space #Nebula #Stars #Astrophysics #Cosmos
Une vue des effets des étoiles massives dans la région de 30 Doradus, montrant des nuages de gaz érodés et des étoiles brillantes.
September 14, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Nobody knows how this star got where it is.

VFTS 682 is a near twin of R136's core giants, yet burns alone far from them. Either it was flung out, or this giant formed alone.

MIK, 130 solar masses, a pristine star between pulses.

10/11 · the Starlife mass ladder · starlife.info

#astronomy #stars
A large muted slate-blue star, contracting, on a dark field of gas. Poster text reads: MIK, VFTS 682. "A furnace at the limit." 130 solar masses, O2I. Below: past a hundred solar masses the usual rules begin to bend, and stars this big shine bright enough to be identified in neighboring galaxies. A lifetime bar runs along the bottom with its marker just past the middle, labelled 2.5 MILLION YEARS. 10/11.
September 11, 2026 at 9:07 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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Cette région évoque un récif corallien, façonnée par les étoiles massives de R136. ✨🌌

#Nebula #Stars #Cosmos #Space #Astronomy
Une vue d'une nébuleuse avec des nuages de gaz érodés par des étoiles massives, remplie d'étoiles brillantes.
August 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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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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⚠️ Jobstown ⚠️

Multiple reports of a collision on the R136 Cheeverstown Road at Jobstown Park. Take care in the area.
August 27, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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...and recently installed Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, have provided tantalising clues that the star was ejected from R136.
In the ESO and WFPC2 images, hot stars are represented by the colour blue. Hydrogen is in red and oxygen in green. Radiation from the runaway star is making the nebula glow....
August 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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...Imager at the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope on La Silla, Chile.
The young star, only one million to two million years old, may have travelled about 375 light-years from its suspected home in R136, the bright star cluster marked by a circle. Nestled in the core of 30 Doradus, R136 is one of the m...
August 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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(From 2009's offerings)
Alt Text as written by NASA: In the center of star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. These stars, known collectively as star cluster R136, were captured above in visible light by the newly installed Wide Field Camera peering though the recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Gas and dust clouds in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, have been sculpted into elongated shapes by powerful winds and ultraviolet radiation from these hot cluster stars. The 30 Doradus Nebula lies within a neighboring galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud and is located a mere 170,000 light-years away.
August 22, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 1997-10-04: In the Center of 30 Doradus
#Astronomy #NASA #Space
In the center of 30 Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, most massive stars known. The center of this cluster, known as R136, is boxed in the upper right portion of the above picture. The gas and dust filling the rest of the picture is predominantly ionized hydrogen from the emission nebula 30 Doradus. R136 is composed of thousands of hot blue stars, some about 50 times more massive than our Sun. 30 Doradus and R136 lie in the LMC - a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Although the ages of stars in R136 cause it to be best described as an open cluster, R136's density will likely make it a low mass globular cluster in a few billion years.
August 15, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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The massive stars in R136, its central star cluster, blow extremely powerful winds.

Classical models predict these winds heat the gas enough to make it glow in X-rays. But observations show less X-ray emission than expected.

Where does that energy go?
August 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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🚦 Tallaght 🚦

Multiple reports of traffic light failures on the R838 Bóthar Katharine Tynan at Cookstown Way and at the R136 Cheeverstown Road. Take care in the area.
August 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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輝線星雲「タランチュラ星雲」の多波長画像　ハッブル・ウェッブ・チャンドラが観測
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タランチュラ星雲は天の川銀河の衛星銀河（伴銀河）のひとつ「大マゼラン雲」に位置する星形成領域です。無数の若い星々が、複雑に入り組んだ広大なガスと塵の構造に包まれています
輝線星雲「タランチュラ星雲」の多波長画像　ハッブル・ウェッブ・チャンドラが観測
3つの宇宙望遠鏡が捉えた大マゼラン雲のタランチュラ星雲。若い大質量星の恒星風で生じた高温ガスが、漏出・混合・熱伝導を通じてエネルギーを失う仕組みを、X線・赤外線・可視光線の合成画像と最新研究から紹介します。中心星団R136と大質量星の特徴もあわせて解説します
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August 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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🎨 Glass Gallery Spotlight: "30 Doradus in Infrared"

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#Dorado #Hubble #Space #Universe
30 Doradus in Infrared | Glass Gallery
This image 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...
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August 12, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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Raster Master v8.0 R136 - Raster Master Sprite/Map Editor for Windows 7/8/10/11
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Raster Master v8.0 R136
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August 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2002-06-13: The Tarantula Zone
#Astronomy #NASA #Space
The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years across - a giant emission nebula within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. Inside this cosmic arachnid lies a central young cluster of massive stars, cataloged as R136, whose intense radiation and strong winds have helped energize the nebular glow and shape the spidery filaments. In this impressive color mosaic of images from the Wide-Field Imager camera on ESO's 2.2 meter telescope at La Silla Observatory, other young star clusters can be seen still within the nebula's grasp. Also notable among the denizens of the Tarantula zone are several dark clouds invading the nebula's outer limits as well as the dense cluster of stars NGC 2100 at the extreme left edge of the picture. The small but expanding remnant of supernova 1987a, the closest supernova in modern history, lies just off the lower right corner of the field. The rich mosaic's field of view covers an area on the sky about the size of the full moon in the southern constellation Dorado.
August 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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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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July 26, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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...e Sun is about 4 light years from the nearest known star, Proxima Centauri.
"Our reconstructed photo of R136 shows what the raw Hubble photos will look like after the 1993 repair mission to fix the telescope's spherical aberration," says Goddard astronomer, Dr. Sally Heap.

Credit: NASA/ESA/Go...
July 20, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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ESA/Hubble (@esa.int) images (May 11, 2010)

30 Dor #016, a heavyweight runaway star 90 times more massive than the Sun, is speeding away from its cluster R136 at more than 400,000 km/h.

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Compass and scale image of runaway star 30 Dor #016 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA and Z. Levay (STScI)Science Credit: NASA, ESA, C. Evans (Royal Observatory Edinburgh), N. Walborn (STScI) and ESO
July 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2022-09-07: Tarantula Stars R136 from Webb
#Astronomy #NASA #Space
Near the center of a nearby star-forming region lies a massive cluster containing some of the largest and hottest stars known. Collectively known as star cluster NGC 2070, these stars are part of the vast Tarantula Nebula and were captured in two kinds of infrared light by the new Webb Space Telescope. The main image shows the group of stars at NGC 2070's center -- known as R136 -- in near-infrared, light just a bit too red for humans to see. In contrast, the rollover image captures the cluster center in mid-infrared light, light closer to radio waves. Since R136's brightest stars emit more of their light in the near infrared, they are much more prominent on that image. This LMC cluster's massive stars emit particle winds and energetic light that are evaporating the gas cloud from which they formed. The Webb images, released yesterday, shows details of R136 and its surroundings that have never been seen before, details that are helping humanity to a better understanding of how all stars are born, evolve and die.
July 11, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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...e Sun is about 4 light years from the nearest known star, Proxima Centauri.
"Our reconstructed photo of R136 shows what the raw Hubble photos will look like after the 1993 repair mission to fix the telescope's spherical aberration," says Goddard astronomer, Dr. Sally Heap.

Credit: NASA/ESA/Go...
July 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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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