The Orion Nebula (M42) and Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) may reign supreme among star-forming regions in the Milky Way, but they ...

Located about 170,000 light years from Earth, the Tarantula Nebula is formally named 30 Doradus, referring to a catalog number for objects in the direction of the constellation Dorado. It is ...

A newly released image of 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, reveals thin spider-web-like strands of gas revealing a dramatic battle between gravity and stellar energy that could give ...

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 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

The Tarantula Nebula sounds like it would be ... Povich is the co-author of a recent study on 30 Dor. The nebula is located 160,000 light-years away in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic ...

The Tarantula Nebula has long been a focus of astronomers ... a spiral of solar systems 32 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy is located in the constellation Pisces, according to ...

These pictures show the Tarantula Nebula, located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud – a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. The nebula is the biggest and brightest one ...