Colliding Star Clusters
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a pair of star clusters that are believed to be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are parts the gigantic 30 Doradus nebula (aka the Tarantula Nebula)...
View ArticleBlue Whisps
This Hubble image shows part of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The colors seen in this picture are different from what we normally see in the images of the Large...
View ArticleA Spider in Space
Several million young stars are vying for our attention in this image of a stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula. Early astronomers nicknamed the nebula...
View ArticleMonster Stars
This Hubble image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen the lower right of the image. This cluster contains...
View ArticleThe Honeycomb Nebula
The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the Milky Way’s closest companions. It’s only about 160,000 light-years away. It’s home to the Tarantula Nebula, one of the largest and most active star formation...
View ArticleA Spider in Space
Several million young stars are vying for our attention in this image of a stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula. Early astronomers nicknamed the nebula...
View ArticleBlue Wisps
This Hubble image shows part of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The colors seen in this picture are different from what we normally see in the images of the Large...
View ArticleThe Tarantula Nebula
This brief video wipes from an infrared view of the Tarantula Nebula to one in visible light. Video Credit: ESO
View ArticleAn Intergalactic Carbon Footprint
This false color image taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud in a couple of wavelengths of infrared light. The LMC is a satellite galaxy of the...
View ArticleSome Really Big Stars
This Hubble image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen the lower right of the image. This cluster contains...
View ArticleThree Ways of Seeing the Tarantula Nebula
This short video crossfades down the electromagnetic spectrum from visible light (ESO’s 2.2 m Telescope), infrared (ESO’s VLT and VISTA), and radio (ESO’s ALMA). The Tarantula Nebula (aka 30 Doradus)...
View ArticleJWST Looks at the Tarantula Nebula
The clouds in this JWST NIRCam image stretch across 340 light-years of the Tarantula Nebula’s star-forming region. The image shows tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were...
View ArticleA New Hubble View of the Tarantula Nebula
This is a closeup of the Tarantula Nebula (aka 30 Doradus), a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud 161,000 light-years from Earth. It is the brightest...
View ArticleLooking Upward From A Balloon
Here’s another of the first pictures taken by the SuperBIT telescope. It’s the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image was taken while the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope...
View ArticleSeen Through A Different Filter
This Hubble image shows part of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The colors seen in this picture are different from what we normally see in the images of the Large...
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