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Coloured optical photograph of 30 Doradus (the Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070), taken with the four- meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory (CTIO). 30 Doradus is an enormous, bright cloud of ionised gas which lies within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby small, irregular galaxy. The nebula is so bright that, were it as close to Earth as the Orion nebula (M42), it would be visible during the day and would cast shadows at night. It is 900 light years across and the total mass of hydrogen in it is about 500,000 times the mass of the Sun.

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