but they pale in comparison to the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070). The Tarantula resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own located 160,000 light-years away. This nebula ...

One of the sky’s standout objects is the Tarantula Nebula, also known as the True ... is the massive open cluster NGC 2070. It’s the central group of ultrahot stars in this cluster that ...

Taking the new calculations into account, they added that Hodge 301 is much older than the bulk of the stars in NGC 2070—the most active region of the Tarantula Nebula. However, it is only ...

At the core of the Tarantula Nebula lies a young, giant star cluster called NGC 2070, a starburst region whose dense core, R136, contains some of the most massive and luminous stars known.

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, the nebula owes its name to the ...

The Tarantula’s environment isn’t quite so hectic beyond NGC 2070’s borders. The nebula apparently came to life 20 to 30 million years ago, when stars started to turn on some 145 light-years ...

A lot of infants; the Tarantula is home to another, older cluster of stars called Hodge 301, over a hundred light-years from NGC 2070, but still inside the nebula. And the word “old” is ...

Hubble has imaged 30 Doradus many times during its 35 years in space; the region is also known as the Tarantula Nebula ... young star cluster called NGC 2070, and at the heart of that cluster ...

Astronomers focused the James Webb Space Telescope on the Tarantula Nebula, one of the brightest and most active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard, and found thousands of young stars ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray This gorgeous new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a bustling nearby star forming region called the Tarantula Nebula. Given its name due to its complex ...

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 ...