30 Doradus Tarantula Nebula

Credit: 2MASS; Infrared Processing and Analysis Center; Caltech; University of Massachusettes · Download full size image

Atlas Image mosaic, covering 14.3´ × 14.3´ on the sky, of the Tarantula, or 30 Doradus, Nebula (also known as NGC 2070). This nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is the closest example to us of a giant ionized hydrogen (H II) region, covering several hundred parsecs in diameter. The closest analog in our Milky Way Galaxy is the H II region NGC 3603. A number of other stellar populations, including red supergiants and Wolf-Rayet stars, coexist in 30 Doradus. 2000 Feb 23-29 Posted on: 31 Mar, 2003

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