Tarantula Nebula #1
by Robert Gendler/science Photo Library
Title
Tarantula Nebula #1
Artist
Robert Gendler/science Photo Library
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Tarantula Nebula. Composite image of the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus, NGC 2070). The Tarantula nebula is an emission nebula that is nearly 1000 light years across and is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), around 170,000 light years from Earth, in the constellation Doradus. Image obtained by combining data from amateur observations with that from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
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February 15th, 2021
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