“Stellar Assembly” | Source: NASA / Hubble Space Telescope

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A crowded construction zone of the cosmos ~ where gravity pulls raw gas into tight ranks and massive stars ignite together, fast and furious.

A crowded construction zone of the cosmos ~ where gravity pulls raw gas into tight ranks and massive stars ignite together, fast and furious.

    • Object: R136 (Super Star Cluster)

    • Nebula: 30 Doradus (Tarantula Nebula) / NGC 2070

    • Location: Large Magellanic Cloud (satellite galaxy of the Milky Way)

    • Distance from Earth: ~160,000 light-years

    • Cluster Type: Super star cluster (extremely dense and massive)

    • Star Count: Hundreds of thousands of stars packed into a small region

    • Standout Feature: Some of the most massive stars known (over 100× the Sun’s mass)

    • Color Clues:

      • Blue-white stars = scorching-hot, ultra-young giants

      • Reddish clouds = ionized gas sculpted by stellar winds

    • Timescale: Formed within the last few million years

    • Why It Matters: Shows how extreme environments rapidly build massive star populations that shape entire galaxies

    • 🐾 Feline Perspective: Once the assembly is complete… I’ll be sure to knock it over.

    • Approx. 23”W x 18.5”H

    • Large format, vibrant, high-quality print on durable, semi-rigid thermoplastic.

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