The Cosmic Web of the Tarantula Nebula
Located in the Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way galaxy is the largest and most complex star-forming region in the entire galactic neighborhood! This "tarantula"is about 1,000 light-years across. The spindly arms of this nebula surround NGC 2070, a star cluster that contains some of the brightest, most massive stars known, visible in blue on the right. I've never seen anything like this before and it really just bolsters that fact that space is beautiful.
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