Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/R136 star cluster

R136 star cluster

Original - The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years.

Reason

Beautiful, high quality Hubble Space Telescope image of the cluster.

Articles this image appears in

R136

Creator

NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee

• Support as nominator --KFP (talk | contribs) 16:30, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Impressive picture, I can see no reason to oppose. J Milburn (talk) 16:46, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Very nice! pitty it has such an un-poetic name. Elekhh (talk) 03:44, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support -- Chris 73 | Talk 06:19, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support As usual NASA do as much with the image as to misrepresent the subject. Unfortunately they rule how we see this part of the world.  franklin  16:17, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support, beautiful. Alison22 (talk) 01:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC) Sockpuppet of a banned user. --KFP (talk | contribs) 17:14, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support, educational and well-balanced. Great image. - I.M.S. (talk) 01:28, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support good image in many ways. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:12, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:R136_HST_2009-12-15.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)