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, the Tarantula Nebula is one of the most luminous star-forming regions in our galactic backyard. It is also one of the most active in terms of birthing new stars, — some of which have masses more than 150 times that of the
"What makes 30 Doradus unique is that it is close enough for us to study in detail how stars are forming, and yet its properties are similar to those found in very distantwhen the Universe was young,"” European Space Agency scientist Guido De Marchi, a European Space Agency scientist and co-author of a paper describing the work, said in the statement."Thanks to 30 Doradus, we can study how stars used to form 10 billion years ago, when most stars were born.
This contradicts the previous consensus on such star-forming regions which has suggested that thin strands of gas as seen in the Tarantula Nebula should be too disrupted by this feedback to allow gravity to pull it together and form new stars. Given its properties, it's unsurprising that the Tarantula Nebula has been well-studied. What makes this new research different is while previous studies have mostly focused on its center — the site of the densest gas and thus the most rapid star formation — astronomers are aware that stars are also being formed in other regions of the nebula this team collected high-resolution observations of a large region of the Tarantula Nebula rather than focusing on its heart.
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