Glowing brightly about 160,000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way. A new image reveals a ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray ...

The Tarantula Nebula, residing in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a web of stars, gas and dust with a diameter around 600 light-years.

What you’re seeing is the Tarantula Nebula, an unimaginably huge star-forming gas cloud.It’s located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, about 170,000 light ...

January 2–9, 2014: The Large Magellanic Cloud in Dorado is an excellent target for far-southern naked-eye observers, open cluster NGC 1664 in Auriga offers small-telescope owners nice views, and ...

The Tarantula Nebula is extra-galactic object. It’s within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), an irregular dwarf galaxy that orbits our Milky Way galaxy and will be absorbed by it in 2.4 billion ...

Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Tarantula Nebula that highlights its abundance of stars and stunning luminosity. Orbiting our Milky Way galaxy is the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

NASA shows photo of Tarantula Nebula, ... The space agency's James Webb Space Telescope captured the image of a large Magellanic Cloud galaxy nicknamed the “Tarantula Nebula. ...

A dwarf irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the most stunning deep-sky treasures of the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the unaided eye as a soft glow ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope located at the Paranal Observatory, Chile has captured a stunning vista of an emission nebula known as LHA 120-N55, or N55 for short.

The Tarantula Nebula, officially known as 30 Doradus, is a region of star-forming gas at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy close to the Milky Way ablaze with "stellar nurseries ...