Star Cluster R136

Star cluster R136 is a beautiful object that can be found within the Tarantula Nebula, which is situated within the Large Magellanic Cloud. In this area of the nebula, there are hundreds of brand-new blue stars. Some of the largest stars in the universe can be found here. In order to study the Tarantula Nebula using Hubble's spectrograph instrument, astronomers from NASA and the European Space Agency collaborated to use the Hubble Space Telescope. Nine heavyweight stars with masses 100 times that of our sun, Sol, are among these bright blue stars, which are 170,000 light-years away from us.

The NGC 2070 star cluster, which is located in the center of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, contains a concentration of stars known as R136 (formerly known as RMC 136 from the Radcliffe Observatory Magellanic Clouds catalogue). 72 class O and Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be present within 5 parsecs (20 arc seconds) of the cluster's center, while when it was first designated it was an unresolved stellar object (catalogued as HD 38268 and Wolf-Rayet star Brey 82). This region of the LMC is a starburst region due to the extreme quantity and concentration of young massive stars there.