How does a star form from the cold, turbulent gloom of a molecular cloud? Three years have already passed since the James Webb Space Telescope has been revealing how, most recently by removing the ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights the Tarantula Nebula’s complex structure, featuring dense cosmic dust clouds and vibrant star-forming regions. This nebula, located 160,000 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured a stunning image of the vibrant star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula. This nebula, named for its intricate, web-like structure, resides in ...

The Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070) is an enormous stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image uses data from 0.9 micron to 4.44 microns.

Officially known as 30 Doradus, this star-forming region is nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula for its long, intricate filaments of dust.

Nebula N79 is a huge star factory. It's considered a younger version of the Tarantula Nebula, but it's nearly five times larger, spanning 1,630 light-years across.

James Webb Space Telescope's newest infrared images reveal star formation in the Tarantula Nebula and may shed light on nebulae in the early universe.

The Tarantula Nebula lies 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. It gets its name from the long dusty filaments resembling spiders' legs in older images.

In this image from Sept. 6, 2022, thousands of never-before-seen young stars are pictured in the Tarantula Nebula. The telescope revealed details of the structure and composition of the nebula, as ...