30 Doradus in Infrared
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 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 stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun.
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
About the Image
NASA press release
Id: | opo0932d |
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Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 15 December 2009, 15:00 |
Size: | 2981 x 2981 px |
About the Object
Name: | 30 Doradus |
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Type: | Local Universe : Nebula |
Distance: | 170000 light years |
Constellation: | Dorado |
Category: | Nebulae |
Coordinates
Position (RA): | 5 38 47.49 |
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Position (Dec): | -69° 5' 50.55" |
Field of view: | 1.97 x 1.97 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 14.3° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Infrared J | 1.1 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
Infrared H | 1.6 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |