R136

Stelle titaniche in 30 Doradus

Pubblicato 26/11/2016 | Da Barbara Bubbi

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.

Il giovane, massiccio ammasso stellare, chiamato R136, ha un’età di soltanto pochi milioni di anni e risiede nella nebulosa 30 Doradus, una turbolenta regione di formazione stellare nella Grande Nube di Magellano, una galassia satellite della nostra Via Lattea. Continua a leggere→

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