Flashcards: Dorado (constellation)

SN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a nearby dwarf galaxy).

Gamma Doradus (Gamma Dor, γ Doradus, γ Dor) is the third-brightest star in the constellation of Dorado.

VFTS 682 is a Wolf–Rayet star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

HD 37974 (or R 126) a variable B[e] hypergiant in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

HD 269810 is a blue giant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Zeta Doradus (ζ Dor) is a young star system that lies approximately 38 light-years away.

VFTS 352 is a contact binary star system 160,000 light-years (49,000 pc) away in the Tarantula Nebula, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

WOH G64 is a red hypergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud satellite galaxy in the southern constellation of Dorado.

R Doradus (HD 29712 or P Doradus) is the name of a red giant Mira variable star in the far-southern constellation Dorado, although visually it appears more closely associated with the constellation Reticulum.

RMC 136a1 (usually abbreviated to R136a1) is a Wolf–Rayet star located at the center of R136, the central condensation of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula.

AB Doradus is a pre-main-sequence quadruple star system in the constellation Dorado.

S Doradus is one of the brightest stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite of the Milky Way.

The Magellanic Stream is a stream of high-velocity clouds of gas extending from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds over 100° through the Galactic south pole of the Milky Way.

BB Doradus or BB Dor is a cataclysmic variable or nova-like star that is a binary star system composed of a red dwarf and a white dwarf.

BI 253 is an O2V star in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is a primary standard of the O2 type.

Gliese 163 is an M3.

HD 38282 (R144, BAT99-118, Brey 89) is a massive spectroscopic binary star in the Tarantula Nebula (Large Magellanic Cloud), consisting of two hydrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet stars.

R136a2 (RMC 136a2) is a Wolf-Rayet star residing near the center of the R136, the central concentration of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula, a massive H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud which is a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

VFTS 102 is a star located in the Tarantula nebula, a star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Sanduleak -69° 202 (Sk -69° 202, also known as GSC 09162-00821) was a magnitude 12 blue supergiant star, located on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Melnick 42 is a massive blue supergiant star in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud located in the constellation Dorado.

δ Doradus is a faint star in the Dorado constellation that becomes the Moon's south pole star once every 18.

R136b is a Wolf-Rayet star in the R136 cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

BAT99-116 (commonly called Melnick 34 or Mk34) is a massive luminous Wolf–Rayet star near R136 in the 30 Doradus complex (also known as the Tarantula Nebula) in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Theta Doradus (Theta Dor, θ Doradus, θ Dor) is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +4.

LH54-425 is a spectroscopic binary star system in the LH 54 OB association within the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado.

BAT99-98 is a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

R136c is located in the R136 super star cluster, a massive star cluster with 450,000 solar masses and 10,000 stars.

R136a3 is a Wolf–Rayet star in R136, a massive star cluster located in Dorado.

LMC195-1 is a Wolf-Rayet star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

R99 (HD 269445) is a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado.

HD 30177 is an 8th magnitude star located approximately 178 light-years (55 parsecs) away in the constellation Dorado.

Alpha Doradus (Alpha Dor, α Doradus, α Dor) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Dorado.

Beta Doradus (Beta Dor, β Doradus, β Dor) is the second brightest star in the southern constellation of Dorado.

HD 30177 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 178 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado, orbiting the star HD 30177.

HD 33579 is a white/yellow hypergiant and one of the brightest stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

HD 28254 b (also known as HIP 20606 b) is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star HD 28254, located approximately 178 light years away in the constellation Dorado.

Eta1 Doradus (Eta1 Dor, η1 Doradus, η1 Dor) is the Bayer designation for an A-type main sequence star in the constellation of Dorado, around 330 light-years from the Earth.

HD 28254 is an 8th magnitude G-type main sequence star located approximately 178 light years away in the constellation Dorado.