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AI overview
The Tarantula Nebula is a vast cloud of glowing gas located in the constellation Dorado that serves as a stellar nursery where new stars are actively forming. It is significant because its enormous size and brightness make it one of the most luminous and studied star-forming regions known to astronomers.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical radio source
- Part of
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Has part
- VFTS 102
- Constellation
- Dorado
- Distance from Earth
- 179000
- Image
- Tarantula Nebula TRAPPIST.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Tarantula Nebula
- discoverer or inventor
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
- time of discovery or invention
- 1751-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 8
- right ascension
- 84.65000
- declination
- -69.08639
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- MDM 77
- Commons category
- Tarantula Nebula
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is a large H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), forming its south-east corner (from Earth's perspective).
Discovery
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tarantula Nebula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.