WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - Astronomers have peered into a teeming stellar nursery in the Tarantula Nebula - a colossal cloud of gas and dust next door to our galaxy - gaining new ...

The stunning imagery reveals thousands of other previously unsighted young stars, and presents the nearby Tarantula Nebula in dazzling new detail. Also known as 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula is ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the ...

The strange behavior of the Tarantula Nebula and its continued existence could be the result of powerful magnetic fields at its heart. The Tarantula Nebula, officially known as 30 Doradus ...

The Tarantula Nebula gets its name from its appearance, which is similar to that of a burrowing tarantula’s hole covered in spider silk. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI The latest wonder from ...

The Tarantula Nebula has been photographed by several observatories in the past, but new images captured by the James Webb Telescope give us a clearer, sharper view of the star-forming region.

Nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula for the appearance of its dusty filaments in previous telescope images, the nebula has long been a favorite for astronomers studying star formation. In addition to ...