"The Red Spider Nebula harbors one of the hottest stars known, which heats the gas around it to form shockwaves 62 billion miles (100 billion km) high," NASA wrote in their post. "These waves form ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

creating massive shockwaves that extend over 62 billion miles (100 billion kilometres) into space. These shockwaves form the nebula's distinctive spider-leg-like arcs.