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The name Tarantula Nebula arose in the mid-20th century from its appearance in deep photographic exposures. [7] 30 Doradus has often been treated as the designation of a star, [8] [9] or of the central star cluster NGC 2070, [10] but is now generally treated as referring to the whole nebula area of the Tarantula Nebula. [11] [12]
VFTS 682 is a Wolf–Rayet star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.It is located over 29 parsecs (95 ly) north-east of the massive cluster R136 in the Tarantula Nebula. [5] It is 138 times the mass of the Sun and 3.2 million times more luminous, which makes it one of the most massive and most luminous stars known.
R136a2 (RMC 136a2) is a Wolf-Rayet star residing near the center of the R136, the central concentration of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula, a massive H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud which is a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Researchers have unveiled intricate details of the star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula which lies 170,000 light years from Earth. Scientists map violent nebula to discover how stars ...
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It is one of the largest H II regions in the Local Group, with an estimated diameter around 650 to 1860 light years. It is around 160,000 light-years from Earth and has apparent magnitude of 8.
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It is a loose cluster approximately 10 million years old, within one of the Tarantula Nebula's superbubbles formed by the combined stellar winds of the cluster or by old supernovae. [ 1 ] NGC 2060 is often used synonymously for the supernova remnant N157B [ 2 ] (30 Doradus B [ 3 ] ) which is a larger area of faint nebulosity and strong radio ...
The Tarantula Nebula's bright young stars glow blue in the telescope's images.