Giant Runaway Star

[kris h]

ON last months sky at night they talked about the tarantula nebula and its runaway star and the image by Hubble is fantastic they say the star is 90 times the mass of our star and is going (250,000mph) after being evicted from its cluster for people like me who live in the northern hemisphere who cant observe the nebula i was wondering people who can observe the tarantula neb will they be able to see the runaway star

[yeti monster]

Too far south for me, which is a shame.

[QldLiz]

Hmmmm, will try and have a look at some stage kris..... though if it was captured by Hubble, I may be struggling!!

The SMC rose about 10pm the other night, so LMC will be awhile after that, so not 'jump out at you' visible at the moment.

Another interesting target to add.

Will have a look for info on it.