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HST-NICMOS observations of extensive triggered star formation within the 30 Doradus Nebula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Nolan R. Walborn
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Rodolfo H. Barbá
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Abstract

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The extensive ‘second generation’ of star formation within the 30 Doradus Nebula, evidently triggered by the R136 central cluster around its periphery, has been imaged with HST-NICMOS. Many new infrared sources and structures are found in these images.

Type
Part 4. Wolf-Rayet stars and other hot massive stars in the Galactic Center and in Local Group giant H II regions (individual stars)
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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