Posts Tagged ‘R136’

Starry Presents

21 December 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Char­lottesville), and the Wide Field Cam­era 3 Sci­ence Over­sight Committee

In case you missed our amaz­ing Hub­ble image count­down to Christ­mas last year, here is a present to put under the Christ­mas Tree Neb­ula.

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Starry Presents

15 December 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Char­lottesville), and the Wide Field Cam­era 3 Sci­ence Over­sight Committee

Here is a present to put under the Christ­mas Tree Neb­ula from yes­ter­day. In this new image of the star-forming region R136 from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope WFC3, astronomers take a close look at this region of the 30 Doradus Neb­ula. The region is only a few mil­lion years old. R136 is 170,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Mag­el­lanic Cloud. 30 Doradus is the largest, most active star-making region astronomers know of.

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