This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a scene on the nebula's fringes where the super star cluster R136 resides. Near R136 lives a rare type of stars known as Wolf-Rayet stars. These massive stars have ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

NASA's Hubble Telescope has captured stunning, never-seen-before imagery of a cosmic tarantula located 161,000 light-years away. The breathtaking photography caught 30 Doradus, nicknamed Tarantula ...

The Tarantula Nebula glows with powerful stars and chaotic dust, captured in vivid detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s ...

The Tarantula Nebula is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is an immense cloud of gas and dust about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

The Tarantula Nebula has long been a focus of astronomers studying star formation because it has a chemical makeup similar to that of the gigantic star-forming regions at the universe's cosmic ...

What is the Tarantula Nebula? The Tarantula Nebula—also called 30 Doradus—is about 160,000 light-years distant and a famous target for astrophotography. At its heart are some of the most ...

The Tarantula Nebula is about 161,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy and is home to some of the hottest and and biggest stars known to astronomers.

First, right at the brightest part of the nebula (left of center in the big picture, detailed above) you can see a clump of stars. That’s R136, the main cluster of stars in the nebula.

This new Hubble image shows a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula in infrared light. This region is full of star clusters, glowing gas, and thick dark dust. Image released Jan. 9, 2014.