The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

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 ...

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. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E ...

The Tarantula Nebula, residing in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a web of stars, gas and dust with a diameter around 600 light-years.

A composite image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus — also known as the Tarantula Nebula — reveals areas of cool gas that can collapse to form stars. (Image credit: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ ...

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 ...

What is the Tarantula Nebula? The Tarantula Nebula—also called 30 Doradus—is about 160,000 light-years distant and a famous target for astrophotography. At its heart are some of the most ...

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 Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is an immense cloud of gas and dust about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

This new Hubble image shows a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula in infrared light. This region is full of star clusters, glowing gas, and thick dark dust. Image released Jan. 9, 2014.