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R136 (formerly known as RMC 136 from the Radcliffe Observatory Magellanic Clouds catalogue) is the central concentration of stars in the NGC 2070 star cluster, which lies at the centre of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. When originally named it was an unresolved stellar object (catalogued as HD 38268 and Wolf–Rayet star Brey 82) but…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R136 | Apparent magnitude (V) | 9.50 | 1.00 | infobox |
| R136 | Constellation | Dorado | 1.00 | infobox |
| R136 | Declination | −69° 06′ 03.36″ | 1.00 | infobox |
| R136 | Distance | 157 kly (48.5 kpc) | 1.00 | infobox |
| R136 | Estimated age | 1.5+0.3 −0.7 million years | 1.00 | infobox |
| R136 | Mass | 90,000 M☉ | 1.00 | infobox |
| R136 | Other designations | UCAC2 1803442, SAO 249329, HD 38268, TYC 9163-1014-1, CD-69 324, GC 7114 | 1.00 | infobox |
| R136 | Right ascension | 05h 38m 42.396s | 1.00 | infobox |
| Cygnus OB2 | instance of | R136 has around 200 times the stellar density of a typical OB association | 0.80 | text |
| R136 | related to Components | The | 0.60 | section |
| R136 | related to Components | R136a1 | 0.60 | section |
| R136 | related to Components | Within | 0.60 | section |
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