An image of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Tarantula Nebula is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and its turbulent clouds of gas and dust swirl among the region’s bright, newly formed stars.
The Tarantula Nebula is a known location for Hubble. It is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood and home to the hottest and most massive stars known. This makes it the perfect natural laboratory in which to test theories of star formation and evolution, and HST has a rich array of images of the region at its disposal. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope also recently delved into the region, revealing thousands of never-before-seen young stars.
This new image combines data from two different observational designs. The first was designed to probe the properties of dust grains that exist in the void between stars that make up the dark clouds winding through this image. The proposal, named Scylla by astronomers, reveals how interstellar dust interacts with starlight in different environments.
It complements another Hubble program called Ulysses, which characterizes stars. This image also includes data from an observing program studying star formation in conditions similar to the early universe, as well as cataloging the stars of the Tarantula Nebula for future science with Webb.
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