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The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored ...
NASA's Hubble Telescope has captured stunning, never-seen-before imagery of a cosmic tarantula located 161,000 light-years away. The breathtaking photography caught 30 Doradus, nicknamed Tarantula ...
Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called ...
The Tarantula Nebula glows with powerful stars and chaotic dust, captured in vivid detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s ...
Allow me to intro introduce you to the Tarantula Nebula (otherwise known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070). This spectacular nebula is found in a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way known as the Large ...
The region is home to plenty of young and still-forming stars, many of which the JWST has just revealed for the first time. The JWST team notes that the Tarantula Nebula is the largest, brightest star ...
First, right at the brightest part of the nebula (left of center in the big picture, detailed above) you can see a clump of stars. That’s R136, the main cluster of stars in the nebula.
The bright core of the Tarantula Nebula with the cluster of hot stars. Note also the wisps of luminous gas extending as "legs" from the central area - this is how the nebula got its creepy name ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed view to date of the region of space surrounding the famous Tarantula Nebula – a 1,000 light-year wide swirling cloud of cosmic gas, the core of which ...
The Tarantula Nebula is located in the southern constellation Dorado (Dolphin Fish), 160,000 light-years from Earth. Fred Herrmann of Huntsville, Ala. captured this image remotely from Siding ...
These four Hubble Space Telescope views are part of a massive mosaic of the Tarantula nebula released on April 17, 2012. They show: the young star cluster NGC 2070 (top left), star cluster NGC ...