Tag Archive for 'Tarantula Nebula'

This Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming region some 163,000 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado. The color image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument in the ultraviolet, near-infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum. It is based on data obtained through four filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray.

Hubble Sees Dusty Clouds in Tarantula Nebula

Aug 4, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A striking new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows incredible details in the Tarantula Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region located in...

This Chandra image shows the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / CXC / Penn State University / Townsley et al.

Chandra Captures Deepest X-ray Image Ever Made of Tarantula Nebula

Feb 12, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Tarantula Nebula is the most important star-forming complex in the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud,...

This Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray.

Hubble Sees Swirling Clouds of Cosmic Gas and Dust in Tarantula Nebula

Feb 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking image of a portion of the Tarantula Nebula, which is part of a dwarf galaxy...

This Hubble image shows the Tarantula Nebula, which lies about 163,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Dorado. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes Outskirts of Tarantula Nebula

Jan 20, 2025 by News Staff

A new Hubble image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. This Hubble image...

This Hubble image of a star-forming region containing massive, young, blue stars in the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Francesco Paresce, INAF-IASF Bologna / Robert O’Connell, UVA / SOC-WFC3 / ESO.

Hubble Space Telescope Focuses on Young Stars

Apr 2, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have collected information on almost 500 stars as part of the Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young...

This image of the Tarantula Nebula was taken by the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT). Image credit: NASA / SuperBIT.

SuperBIT Captures Stunning Images of Antennae Galaxies and Tarantula Nebula

Apr 21, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) — a collaboration between Durham University, the University of Toronto, Princeton University,...

This new Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 163,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Dorado: wispy, nebulous clouds extend from the lower-left of the image; at the top and right the dark background of space can be seen through the sparse nebula; along the left and in the corner are many layers of brightly-colored gas and dark, obscuring dust; a cluster of small, bright blue stars in the same corner expands out across the image. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray / E. Sabbi / Y.-H. Chu.

Hubble Space Telescope Focuses on Tarantula Nebula

Jan 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a spectacular image of a very turbulent part of the Tarantula Nebula. This new Hubble...

This 340-light-year-wide image from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) shows the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Webb ERO Production Team.

Webb Takes Close Look at Tarantula Nebula

Sep 6, 2022 by News Staff

The Tarantula Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, hosts thousands of young and still-forming stars, many revealed...

This image, taken with the Zorro imager on the 8.1-m Gemini South telescope, shows R136a1, the largest star yet discovered. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab / D. de Martin, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Gemini South Telescope Captures Best Ever Images of Most Massive Known Star

Aug 22, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

R136a1 has a mass between 170 and 230 solar masses, according to an analysis of optical data from the speckle imager Zorro mounted on the 8.1-m Gemini...

This artist’s impression shows what the binary system VFTS 243 might look like if we were observing it up close. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is composed of a hot, blue star with 25 times the Sun’s mass and a black hole, which is at least nine times the mass of the Sun. The sizes of the two binary components are not to scale: in reality, the blue star is about 200,000 times larger than the black hole. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada.

Dormant Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected in Tarantula Nebula

Jul 18, 2022 by News Staff

The newly-detected black hole is a member of the binary system VFTS 243, which is located in the famous Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This...

This Hubble image shows the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Josh Barrington.

Hubble Spots Glowing Plumes in Tarantula Nebula

Jun 30, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, which is located in the Large Magellanic...

This composite image shows the Tarantula Nebula. The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite: it was captured by the HAWK-I instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), shows bright stars and light, pinkish clouds of hot gas. The bright red-yellow streaks that have been superimposed on the image come from radio observations taken by the ALMA, revealing regions of cold, dense gas which have the potential to collapse and form stars. The unique web-like structure of the gas clouds led astronomers to the nebula’s spidery nickname. Image credit: ESO / ALMA / NAOJ / NRAO / Wong et al. / M.-R. Cioni / VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.

Astronomers Capture Spectacular Image of Tarantula Nebula

Jun 16, 2022 by News Staff

In a new high-resolution image, we see the Tarantula Nebula — a luminous star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of...

This Hubble image shows a region of space called LHA 120-N150. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / I. Stephens.

Hubble Spots Nursery of Massive Stars in Large Magellanic Cloud

Mar 18, 2020 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of a huge HII region called LHA 120-N 150. This bright pink cloud...

This image of the Tarantula Nebula combines data from multiple Spitzer observations, most recently in February and September 2019. The image shows the nebula in two wavelengths of infrared light, each represented by a different color. The red color at the heart of the nebula shows the presence of particularly hot gas emitting infrared light at a wavelength of 4.5 micrometers. The blue regions are dust composed of molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Regions emitting both wavelengths appear white. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Spitzer Sees Tarantula Nebula in Infrared Light

Jan 28, 2020 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, which is set to be retired on January 30, 2020, astronomers have generated a new view of the Tarantula...

A red, green, blue composite image of the Large Magellanic Cloud made from radio wavelength observations at 123, 181 and 227 MHz. At these wavelengths, emission from cosmic rays and the hot gases belonging to the star forming regions and supernova remnants of the galaxy are visible. Image credit: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.

Astronomers Create Cosmic-Ray Maps of Magellanic Clouds

Sep 6, 2018 by News Staff

By observing two neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in...

An artist’s impression of a starburst galaxy. This kind of galaxy is typically forming stars at such a high rate; they can form up to 1,000 times more stars per year, compared to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Astronomers Find Too Many Massive Stars in Nearby and Distant Star-Forming Galaxies

Jun 19, 2018 by News Staff

Two independent teams of astronomers have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early Universe and a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy called...

This image from the 256-megapixel OmegaCAM camera on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula and its rich surroundings in great detail. It reveals a cosmic landscape of star clusters, glowing gas clouds and the scattered remains of supernova explosions. Image credit: ESO.

ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope Captures Tarantula Nebula

May 30, 2018 by News Staff

ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured the sharpest image ever of the Tarantula Nebula and its rich surroundings. This...

This Hubble image shows part of 30 Doradus, home to the most massive stars in our cosmic neighborhood of about 25 galaxies. Image credit: NASA / ESA / D. Lennon and E. Sabbi (ESA / STScI) / J. Anderson, S. E. de Mink, R. van der Marel, T. Sohn, and N. Walborn (STScI) / N. Bastian (Excellence Cluster, Munich) / L. Bedin (INAF, Padua) / E. Bressert (ESO) / P. Crowther (University of Sheffield) / A. de Koter (University of Amsterdam) / C. Evans (UKATC / STFC, Edinburgh) / A. Herrero (IAC, Tenerife), N. Langer (AifA, Bonn), I. Platais (JHU), and H. Sana (University of Amsterdam).

Massive Stars are More Abundant than Thought

Jan 5, 2018 by News Staff

Observations of 30 Doradus, a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy called Large Magellanic Cloud, reveal that massive stars are more prevalent than models...

This Hubble image shows the Honeycomb Nebula (to the lower left) and part of the Tarantula Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Finds Cosmic Bubbles and Filaments in Large Magellanic Cloud

Oct 2, 2017 by News Staff

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy, is home to one of the largest and most intense regions of star formation known...

This truly gorgeous new Hubble image shows N159, a star-forming region within the Large Magellanic Cloud. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Observes Cosmic Maelstrom

Sep 5, 2016 by News Staff

This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of gas and dust within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy...