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the Large Magellanic Cloud is the

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nearest dwarf galaxy to earth if we zoom

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into it with telescopic vision myriad

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stars become visible at the heart of the

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small galaxy is the tarantula nebula

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Hubble unveils a rich tapestry of star

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birth and star destruction among its

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millions of stars at the center of the

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nebula is a glittering cluster of over

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500,000 young stars

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it's called r136 and is only two million

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years old a neighboring star cluster

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Hadj 301 is at least 20 million years

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old it contains many aging red

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the expanding wave of debris is slamming

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into gas ejected by stars in r136

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creating a ridge of star formation

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the blast wave is blowing out turbulent

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this region of 30 Doradus resembles a

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coral reef dense columns of gas several

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light years long protrude from the

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undulating gas they are incubators for

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the tarantula nebula is a unique stellar

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laboratory for observing close-up fire