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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.
Large Magellanic Cloud
irregular galaxy, satellite of the Milky Way
Tarantula Nebula
H II region in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1672
barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado
R136a1
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==
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NGC 1566
spiral galaxy in the constellation Doradus
SN 1987A
supernova
NGC 2080
star cluster
WOH G64
red hypergiant star in the constellation Dorado, possibly the largest well-defined star known by radius
NGC 2082
galaxy
NGC 1533
lenticular galaxy in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1553
galaxy
NGC 1818
star in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1850
Extragalactic super star cluster in the constellation Dorado
NGC 2040
star cluster
NGC 2060
supernova remnant in the constellation Dorado
NGC 2100
star cluster
NGC 1703
galaxy
NGC 1515
barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1578
spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1947
galaxy
NGC 2074
emission nebula in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1549
elliptical galaxy in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1901
open cluster in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1892
galaxy
NGC 1806
globular cluster in the constellation Dorado
NGC 2027
star cluster
NGC 1546
galaxy
NGC 2108
globular cluster
NGC 1596
galaxy
NGC 1755
star cluster
NGC 1783
globular cluster
NGC 2002
star cluster in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1617
barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado
NGC 2164
open cluster
NGC 1581
spiral galaxy in the constellation Dorado
R Doradus
variable star in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1763
stellar association
NGC 2257
globular cluster in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1602
galaxy
NGC 1969
star cluster
NGC 1846
globular cluster in Dorado
NGC 1984
star cluster
NGC 1872
star cluster
NGC 1858
star cluster
NGC 1983
stellar association
NGC 1934
galaxy
NGC 1971
star cluster
NGC 1714
emission nebula in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1860
star cluster
NGC 2020
emission nebula in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1856
star cluster
NGC 1994
star cluster
NGC 1847
young massive star cluster
NGC 1903
star cluster in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1854
star cluster in the constellation Dorado
NGC 1997
star cluster
NGC 1869
stellar association
NGC 2014
stellar association
NGC 2035
emission nebula in the constellation Dorado