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 ...

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.

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 ...

Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, the nebula owes its name to the arrangement of bright patches that somewhat resembles the legs of a tarantula. Full Story. This VISTA image shows 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 ...

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 ...

Located about 159,800 light-years from Earth on the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the Dorado constellation, this is the Tarantula Nebula (also known as NGC 2070). It has a magnitude of 8.

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 ...

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 ...