NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new image of the Tarantula Nebula, which lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
has snapped a stunning image of the Tarantula Nebula, shedding new light on the brightest region of starbirth in our galactic neighborhood.
Also known as 30 Doradus, the nebula is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.The Tarantula Nebula is home to the hottest, most massive stars known. A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula is the most recent Picture of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.NASA said that the first, which astronomers named Scylla, was designed to explore the properties of the dust grains thatthat make up the dark clouds in image. It reveals how interstellar dust interacts with starlight in different environments.
The Tarantula Nebula is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.That proposal complements another program called Ulysses, which characterizes the stars. An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this image of the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009.
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