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The Hubble Space Telescope image of the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts shows colorful stars, billowing gas clouds, and thick dust.
NASA Unveils Tarantula Nebula as 'Stellar Bouquet' for Valentine's Day A stunning Valentine's view of a nebula contains hidden depths of starbirth and the violent deaths of massive stars.
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and busiest star-creating areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
The Hubble image shows a portion of the Tarantula Nebula, which NASA says is “the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local universe.” ...
Hubble returns to image the famously beautiful Eagle Nebula The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation.
Astronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding that powerful magnetic fields ensure its survival and regulate star birth.
NASA's SOFIA captured the magnetic fields in the Tarantula Nebula. NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has recently made a discovery within the captivating expanse of ...
The new James Webb Space Telescope might be more capable, but Hubble still has an edge over all the ground-based telescopes on Earth, as evidenced by its latest observations of the Tarantula Nebula.
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures turbulent clouds of gas and dust swirling between bright blue young stars in the Tarantula Nebula.
This week's Hubble image captures the huge, bright cloud of dust and gas known as the Tarantula Nebula.
As seen with the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera, this bright, star-forming region "resembles a burrowing tarantula’s home, lined with its silk," NASA says.