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The massive, young stellar grouping,
called R136, is only
a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus
Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large
Magellanic
Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is
no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as
prolific as 30 Doradus.
Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars
are among the most
massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times
more massive than our Sun. These hefty stars are destined to
pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a
few
million years.
The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible,
and red light by Hubble's
Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years. The nebula
is close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual
stars,
giving astronomers important information about the stars'
birth
and evolution.
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