A new image from all three of NASA's Great Observatories-Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer-showcases the Tarantula Nebula. The brightest of these blue supergiant stars are up to 100 times more massive than the Sun, and are at least 100,000 times more luminous. An amazing new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the dazzling heart of the Tarantula nebula in a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. These stars will live fast and die young, at least by astronomical standards, exhausting their nuclear fuel in a few million years. At the heart of the nebula is a compact cluster of stars, known as R136, which contains very massive and young stars. The Tarantula Nebula is located at the eastern end of the stellar bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which contains a number of similar regions, but none of them quite and bright and large as the Tarantula. The nebula consists of a cloud of interstellar gas—principally hydrogen—lit from within by young, hot stars that ionize the gas around them. The Tarantula Nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud [Public Domain] 3 Apr 2020 Dylan O'Donnell CATEGORY : Astrophotography 6,556 others viewed this post. Explanation: The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. It's one of the largest space mosaics by Hubble. Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, (catalog number NGC 2070) immense ionized-hydrogen region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way system (in which Earth is located). Tarantula Nebula 04.20.12 To celebrate its 22nd anniversary in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a dramatic new image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula because its glowing filaments resemble spider legs. About 180 thousand light-years away, it's the largest, most violent star forming region known in the whole Local Group of galaxies.

Of all the things you can photograph in space, the “Tarantula” nebulae region in the Large Magellanic Cloud is truly the weirdest.