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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]
BAT99-98 is a Wolf–Rayet star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, in NGC 2070 near the R136 cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus). At 226 M ☉ and 5,000,000 L ☉ it is the most massive known star, and close to one of the most luminous stars currently known. [3]
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.
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's bright young stars glow blue in the telescope's images.
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 ...
R136 produces most of the energy that makes the Tarantula Nebula visible. The estimated mass of the cluster is 450,000 solar masses, suggesting it may become a globular cluster in the future. [ 7 ] R136 has around 200 times the stellar density of a typical OB association such as Cygnus OB2 . [ 8 ]
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