How old is Tarantula Nebula?
– The stars and star clusters inside the Tarantula Nebula range in age from just two million years old (which is very young for a star) to more than 25 million years old. The nebula also contains the fastest known spinning star and the speediest moving stars currently known.
What caused the Tarantula Nebula?
A giant tarantula creeps through a nearby galaxy. The gravity of the other galaxy caused large clouds of gas and dust to collapse, forming new stars. The Tarantula incorporates several star clusters — groups of stars that all formed at about the same time.
What is the largest nebula?
List of the largest nebulae
| Nebula | Maximum dimension (in light-years/parsecs) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Smith’s Cloud | 9,800 ly (3,000 pc) | Extends about 20° of the sky |
| Tarantula Nebula | 1,895 ly (581 pc) | Most active starburst region in the Local Group |
| NGC 604 | 1,520 ly (470 pc) | Located in the Triangulum Galaxy |
| N44 | 1,000 ly (310 pc) |
Who discovered 30 Doradus?
The Tarantula Nebula lies at the eastern end of the LMC’s stellar bar. It was first cataloged as a star, 30 Doradus, then discovered to be a nebula by Nicolas Lacaille in 1751–52.
Where is 30 Doradus located?
RA 5h 38m 38s | Dec -69° 5′ 42″
Tarantula Nebula/Coordinates
How big are the galaxies?
Most of the galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 parsecs in diameter (approximately 3,000 to 300,000 light years) and are separated by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs).
What is biggest thing in the universe?
The biggest supercluster known in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It was first reported in 2013 and has been studied several times. It’s so big that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the structure. For perspective, the universe is only 13.8 billion years old.
How big is the Large Magellanic Cloud?
7,000 light years
Large Magellanic Cloud/Radius
Where is Tarantula Nebula?
How many black holes are there?
So in our region of the Universe, there are some 100 billion supermassive black holes. The nearest one resides in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, 28 thousand lightyears away. The most distant we know of lives in a quasar galaxy billions of lightyears away.