The star cluster R136, located around 158,000 light-years away, is home to hundreds of thousands of stars and sits in a massive region of intense star formation in the LMC. It's home to some of ...

A replacement for the original Wide Field and Planetary Camera, WFPC2 was responsible for some of Hubble's most iconic images and well-known discoveries. Wide Field Camera 3 replaced WFPC2 in 2009 ...

BIG BABIES. Super star cluster R136 lies at the center of the Tarantula Nebula. This cluster harbors the most massive star known, which clocks in at 265 times the mass of our Sun.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the R136 super star cluster, near the center of 30 Doradus , also known as the Tarantula Nebula.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this tiny section on the nebula’s outskirts, southeast of the central R136 cluster. Hubble took the image through filters sensitive to ultraviolet, visible ...

In the left of this very fertile breeding ground there is the super star cluster R136. At first, scientists thought it was a single star, but after puzzling on how a single star could ionize such ...

The R136 cluster is thought to be no more than two million years old, which means it's far too young for any supernova to have occurred yet, said Raghvendra Sahai, an astronomer at NASA's Jet ...

Object Details Manufactured for NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, HST Flight Systems and Servicing Project Summary This is the original, flown Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) that was installed ...

Bradley Whitmore 1, Inge Heyer 2, Stefano Casertano 3, Charge‐Transfer Efficiency of WFPC2, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 111, No. 766 (December 1999), pp. 1559-1576 ...