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Tarantula Nebula

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Tarantula Nebula

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Also known as 30 Doradus

H II region in the constellation Dorado

AI overview

The Tarantula Nebula is a vast cloud of glowing gas located in the constellation Dorado that serves as a stellar nursery where new stars are actively forming. It is significant because its enormous size and brightness make it one of the most luminous and studied star-forming regions known to astronomers.

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Encyclopedic overview

The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), forming its south-east corner (from Earth's perspective).

Discovery

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tarantula Nebula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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