A New View of the Tarantula Nebula
This composite of 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula, contains data from Chandra blue, Hubble green, and Spitzer red. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula is one of the largest star-forming regions close to the Milky Way.
- Date
- 2012-04-17
- Photographer / author
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"A New View of the Tarantula Nebula" (2012-04-17). NASA/JPL/X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14415Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 17719.
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