Tarantula Nebula
NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI, 2022
A storm that makes suns, and the storm is tearing its own house down. Young stars burning the room they were born in. The spider does not care that we named it.
About this work
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope took this view of the Tarantula Nebula with its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), and it was released in 2022. The nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is a stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy near our own, about 160,000 light-years away. It takes its nickname from its long, dusty filaments, which look like a spider's legs. It is the largest and brightest star-forming region near the Milky Way, and the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of galaxies: if it were as close as the Orion Nebula, it would cast visible shadows. The centre of the image has been hollowed out by radiation from young, massive stars, seen as pale blue sparkles; most of the energy that lights the nebula comes from a compact cluster there called R136. Only the densest gas resists, forming pillars that point back toward the cluster, and new stars are still forming inside them. Dozens of distant background galaxies show through. The image is credited to NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI and the Webb ERO Production Team.
Sources: Webb Space Telescope release 2022-041 · Wikipedia: Tarantula Nebula
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