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Image: Grand star-forming region R136 in NGC 2070 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope)

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Description: A Hubble Space Telescope image of the R136 super star cluster, near the center of the 30 Doradus Nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula or NGC 2070. (Converted to JPG from the source TIFF file)
Title: Grand star-forming region R136 in NGC 2070 (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope)
Credit: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/32/image/a/ (direct link)
Author: NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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