The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region resembles a burrowing tarantula’s home, lined with its silk," NASA said Tuesday.

Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Tarantula Nebula that highlights its abundance of stars and stunning luminosity. Orbiting our Milky Way galaxy is the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

The Top 100 Hubble Pictures Series. Today we are travelling to the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic ...

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.

In this space wallpaper, located inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula nebula is worth looking at in detail. Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, ...

New JWST images just dropped, and seriously, these may be the most beautiful we’ve seen yet. No surprise it’s so gorgeous when it’s of the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most extreme star ...

What you’re seeing is the Tarantula Nebula, an unimaginably huge star-forming gas cloud.It’s located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, about 170,000 light ...

The Tarantula Nebula is located in one of our closest galactic neighbours, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble has released images of this celestial spider several times before: in 2004 (heic0416 ...

Hubble has edged in close to the Tarantula Nebula, peering into its bright center of ionized gases, dust and still-forming stars. IE 11 is not supported.