SUPER STAR CLUSTER R136 resides near the center ofthe Tarantula Nebula(NGC 2070) in the Large MagellanicCloud. Astronomers once thought that R136 was a singlesuper star of several thousand solar masses. But HubbleSpace Telescope images such as this clearly resolve it intoa cluster populated by thousands of luminous stars.
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机译:SUPER STAR CLUSTER R136位于大麦哲伦星云中的狼蛛星云(NGC 2070)中心附近。天文学家曾经以为R136是几千个太阳质量的单颗超级恒星。但是像这样的哈勃太空望远镜的图像清楚地将其分解为一个由数千个发光恒星组成的星团。
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