R136
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| Distance to Earth | 158,200 light years |
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| Constellation | Dorado |
| Estimated age | 1. 5+0. 3; −0. 7 million years |
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| ID | 2442411 |
About R136
R136 is the central concentration of stars in the NGC 2070 star cluster, which lies at the centre of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. When originally named it was an unresolved stellar object but is now known to include 72 class O and Wolf–Rayet stars within 5 parsecs of the centre of the cluster.
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