Amazing image of the week: The Tarantula Nebula
Crawling through the sky is a 340-light- year-wide star-forming region called the Tarantula Nebula, part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope created this mosaic image using its Near-Infrared Camera. The dusty filaments of cosmic dust and gas give this nebula its eight-legged nickname, with its most active star-forming region found at its core.
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