Dorado

Dorado (, ) is a constellation in the Southern Sky. It was named in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), which is known as dorado ("golden") in Spanish, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish. Dorado contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remainder being in the constellation Mensa. The South Ecliptic pole also lies within this constellation.

irregular galaxy, satellite of the Milky Way

H II region in the constellation Dorado

barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado

R136a1 (short for RMC 136a1) is the most massive and luminous star known, at around 291 solar masses () and around 7.2 million times the Sun's luminosity (). It is a Wolf–Rayet star at the center of R136, the central concentration of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The cluster can be seen in the far southern celestial hemisphere with binoculars or a small telescope, at magnitude 7.25. R136a1 itself is 100 times fainter than the cluster and can only be resolved using speckle interferometry. ==Discovery== thumb|left|upr

spiral galaxy in the constellation Doradus

supernova

star cluster

red hypergiant star in the constellation Dorado, possibly the largest well-defined star known by radius

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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Dorado

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star in the constellation Dorado

Extragalactic super star cluster in the constellation Dorado

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supernova remnant in the constellation Dorado

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barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado

spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado

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emission nebula in the constellation Dorado

elliptical galaxy in the constellation Dorado

open cluster in the constellation Dorado

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globular cluster in the constellation Dorado

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globular cluster

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globular cluster

star cluster in the constellation Dorado

barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado

open cluster

spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado

variable star in the constellation Dorado

stellar association

globular cluster in the constellation Dorado

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star cluster

globular cluster in Dorado

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stellar association

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star cluster

emission nebula in the constellation Dorado

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emission nebula in the constellation Dorado

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young massive star cluster

star cluster in the constellation Dorado

star cluster in the constellation Dorado

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stellar association

stellar association

emission nebula in the constellation Dorado