Zoomed view of the southern region of 30 Doradus (IMAGE)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Zoomed view of the southern region of 30 Doradus

Caption

This zoomed-in view of the southern region of 30 Doradus reveals some of the clumpy areas that help to make up the gas cloud. Unlike the northern region, which is home to massive protostars more than 5x the mass of the Sun, the southern region is home to numerous protostars similar in mass to the Sun. Future studies of the star-forming region using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will help scientists to understand why star formation differs from location to location within 30 Dor.

Credit

ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Wong (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

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