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Star Cluster R136 - Wide Field and Planetary Camera


Date: 13 August 1990
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: R136
Copyright: NASA

This unprocessed image, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, yields stellar diameters of 0.1 arc second, allowing many more stars to be distinguished than in previous ground-based telescope images.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
15-Feb-2026 20:36 UT

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