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30 Doradus

Star Clusters on a Clandestine Collision Course

August 16, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Astronomers originally thought that just one massive star cluster shone brightly in a huge star forming region of the Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus. But closer analysis using data from the Hubble Space Telescope shows that it is actually [...]

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Special New Panorama Celebrates Hubble’s 22nd Anniversary

April 17, 2012

Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope! On April 24, 1990, HST was launched into low Earth orbit. Now, nearly 22 years later, Hubble is still producing incredible, stunning images of the farthest reaches of the Universe. For this year’s anniversary, the Hubble team took a special panoramic view of 30 Doradus, a raucous stellar [...]

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Runaway Star Needs Its Own Reality Docu-Drama

May 11, 2010

In an astronomical version of “Biggest Loser” meets “Survivor,” a heavy weight star has been kicked out of its stellar nursery. This huge runaway star is rushing away from its birthplace at more than 402,336 kilometers per hour (250,000 miles an hour), and it likely was ejected by a group of even larger sibling stars. [...]

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