03-10-2012, 12:07 AM
Hubble Views Grand Star-Forming Region
This massive, young 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, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. There is no known star-
forming region in the Milky Way Galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are
among the most massive stars known. Several of them are 100 times more massive than our sun. These hefty stars are
destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _2193.html
This massive, young 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, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. There is no known star-
forming region in the Milky Way Galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are
among the most massive stars known. Several of them are 100 times more massive than our sun. These hefty stars are
destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... _2193.html