Journey to Wolf-Rayet Star VFTS 682 in Nearby Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy
This sequence starts with a view of the Milky Way galaxy and its two small neighboring galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. We zoom in towards the Large Magellanic Cloud and focus on the huge star formation region around the Tarantula Nebula. The final sequence shows a very detailed view, captured in visible and infrared light, of the dense star cluster R 136 and the very brilliant, but strangely isolated, star VFTS 682. All Wolf–Rayet stars are highly luminous objects due to their high temperatures—thousands of times the luminosity of our Sun.
Distance from Earth: 170,000 light years
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/R. Gendler/S. Brunier
Duration: 56 seconds
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Release Date: May 25, 2011
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