Posts Tagged ‘30 Doradus’
Growing, glowing spider
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.
A glowing spider is grows inside this massive star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula.
Bug Eyes
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Walsh (ST-ECF), and ESO
Green bug eyes peer out of a rose-colored mist in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Starry Presents
Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee
In case you missed our amazing Hubble image countdown to Christmas last year, here is a present to put under the Christmas Tree Nebula.
Starry Presents
Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee
Here is a present to put under the Christmas Tree Nebula from yesterday. In this new image of the star-forming region R136 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope WFC3, astronomers take a close look at this region of the 30 Doradus Nebula. The region is only a few million years old. R136 is 170,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. 30 Doradus is the largest, most active star-making region astronomers know of.
Swimming in a starry lagoon
Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)/HEIC
Swimming in a starry lagoon 160,000 light-years from Earth toward the southern constellation Doradus, I see the head and fins of a giant turtle. When you explore the image, the blue stars form the halo around the turtle’s head. Can you find other patterns in the star cloud?
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