Editing Tarantula Nebula (section)

==Discovery==
[[File:Hubble WFC3 30 Doradus Zoom.ogv|thumb|left|upright=1.2|The brilliant stars in the Tarantula Nebula unleash a torrent of ultraviolet light and stellar winds that etch away at the hydrogen gas cloud in which the stars were born.]]
The Tarantula Nebula was observed by [[Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille]] during an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope between 1751 and 1753. He cataloged it as the second of the "[[Nebulae of the First Class]]", "Nebulosities not accompanied by any star visible in the telescope of two feet". It was described as a diffuse nebula 20' across.<ref name=lacaille>{{cite journal|bibcode=1969JBAA...79..213J|title=The search for the nebulae - VI|journal=Journal of the British Astronomical Association|volume=79|pages=213|last1=Jones|first1=K. G.|year=1969}}</ref>

[[Johann Elert Bode|Johann Bode]] included the Tarantula in his 1801 ''Uranographia'' star atlas and listed it in the accompanying ''Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne'' catalog as number&nbsp;30 in the constellation "Xiphias or Dorado". Instead of being given a stellar magnitude, it was noted to be nebulous.<ref name=bode>{{cite book |first=J.E. |last=Bode |author-link=Johann Elert Bode |year=1801 |title=Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne: Nebst Verzeichniss der geraden Aufsteigung und Abweichung von 17240 Sternen, Doppelsternen, Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen:(zu dessen Uranographie gehörig) |publisher=Selbstverl. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUlRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 |via=Google  }}</ref>

The name Tarantula Nebula arose in the mid-20th&nbsp;century from its appearance in deep photographic exposures.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Feast |first1=M.W. |year=1961 |title=A study of the 30&nbsp;Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud |journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] |volume=122 |pages=1–16 |bibcode=1961MNRAS.122....1F |doi=10.1093/mnras/122.1.1 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

30 Doradus has often been treated as the designation of a star,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pickering |first1=E.C. |last2=Fleming |first2=W.P. |year=1897 |title=Large Magellanic Cloud |journal=Astrophysical Journal|volume=6 |pages=459 |doi=10.1086/140426  |bibcode=1897ApJ.....6..459P }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |editor1=A.C.D.C. |editor2=W.E.P. |editor3=A.E. |editor4=W.S. |editor5=T.G.E. |editor6=A.S.W. |editor7=A.M.W.D. |editor8=A.M.C. |editor9=T.L. |editor10=A.S.D.E. |editor11=A.L.C. |editor12=A.A. |display-editors=6 |date=February 1893 |department=''Stars having peculiar spectra'' (p.&nbsp;274) |title=Notes on some points connected with the progress of astronomy during the past year |journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] |series=Report of the Council to the Seventy Third Annual Meeting |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=263–297, esp. p.&nbsp;274 |doi=10.1093/mnras/53.4.263 |doi-access=free |url=https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/53/4/263/3846436/mnras53-0263.pdf |via=oup.com |quote=Discovered by {{nobr|Mr. A.E. Douglass,}} at Arequipa, Peru. }}</ref> or of the central star cluster [[NGC 2070]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Andersen |first1=M. |last2=Zinnecker |first2=H. |last3=Moneti|first3=A. |last4=McCaughrean |first4=M.J. |last5=Brandl |first5=B. |last6=Brandner |first6=W. |last7=Meylan |first7=G. |last8=Hunter |first8=D. |display-authors=6 |year=2009 |title=The low-mass initial mass function in the 30&nbsp;Doradus starburst cluster |journal=[[The Astrophysical Journal]] |volume=707 |issue=2 |pages=1347–1360 |doi=10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1347 |bibcode=2009ApJ...707.1347A |arxiv = 0911.2755 |s2cid=118467387}}</ref> but is now generally treated as referring to the whole nebula area of the Tarantula Nebula.<ref>{{cite conference |last=Walborn |first=N.R. |year=1984 |title=The stellar content of 30&nbsp;Doradus |conference=IAU Symposium |volume=108 |pages=243–253 |publisher=[[International Astronomical Union]] |doi=10.1017/S0074180900040328 |bibcode=1984IAUS..108..243W |isbn=978-90-277-1723-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aguirre |first1=J.E. |last2=Bezaire |first2=J.J. |last3=Cheng |first3=E.S. |last4=Cottingham |first4=D.A. |last5=Cordone |first5=S.S. |last6=Crawford |first6=T.M. |last7=Fixsen |first7=D.J. |last8=Knox |first8=L. |last9=Meyer |first9=S.S. |last10=Norgaard-Nielsen |first10=H.U. |last11=Silverberg |first11=R.F. |last12=Timbie |first12=P. |last13=Wilson |first13=G.W. |display-authors=6 |year=2003 |title=The spectrum of integrated millimeter flux of the Magellanic clouds and 30&nbsp;Doradus from top ''hat'' and DIRBE data |journal=[[The Astrophysical Journal]] |volume=596 |issue=1 |pages=273–286 |bibcode=2003ApJ...596..273A |arxiv = astro-ph/0306425 |s2cid=14291665 |doi=10.1086/377601 }}</ref>