30 Doradus
(30 Dor, Tarantula Nebula)
(HI region in LMC)
30 Doradus (the Tarantula Nebula)
is a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC),
viewed within the constellation Dorado.
It is very bright, especially for its distance,
with an apparent magnitude of +8.
It contains the most active star-forming region within the Local Group,
containing a large HII region that is hundreds of parsecs
across.
Within it is the stellar cluster, NGC 2070.
SN 1987A occurred close to the nebula.
(nebula,LMC)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=Tarantula+Nebula
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1961MNRAS.122....1F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.473L..11R/abstract
| Redshift | Parsecs
/Distance | Lightyears
/Lookback Years | | |
| ~0 | 49kpc | 160kly | | 30 Doradus |
|
| Coordinates: | 30 Dor
J053838-690542 |
|
Referenced by pages:
SAGE
VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS)
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