At least one of the astronomers suspects a star in that cluster exploded as a supernova and shot out gas filaments that formed new
stars over a large region of space.
Not exact matches
«The current results indicate that there has been no significant
star formation in this
large region over hundreds of millions of years,» co-author Giuseppe Bono said in the press release.
The Tarantula Survey is an ambitious ESO
Large Programme that has obtained multi-epoch spectroscopy of
over 1,000 massive
stars in the 30 Doradus
region of the
Large Magellanic Cloud.