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Large Magellanic Cloud

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Large Magellanic Cloud

irregular galaxy, satellite of the Milky Way

Tarantula Nebula

H II region 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

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

star in the constellation Dorado

Extragalactic super star cluster in the constellation Dorado

supernova remnant in the constellation Dorado

star cluster in the constellation Dorado

globular cluster

globular cluster in the constellation Dorado

globular cluster in the constellation Dorado

stellar association

stellar association

stellar association

globular cluster in Dorado

emission nebula in the constellation Dorado

star cluster in the constellation Dorado

stellar association

stellar association

emission nebula in the constellation Dorado

stellar association

stellar association

star in the constellation Dorado

globular cluster

emission nebula in the constellation Dorado

star cluster in the constellation Dorado

stellar association

star cluster in the constellation Dorado

globular cluster in the constellation Hydrus

young massive star cluster

emission nebula in the constellation Dorado

stellar association

emission nebula

emission nebula

globular cluster

stellar association