In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe so far, named Quipu after an Incan measuring system. It contains a shocking 200 quadrillion solar masses. Astronomy is an endeavor ...

The star is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud ... and is 10 million times brighter than the sun. Among the largest known stars previously known were the Pistol Star ...

But now, researchers have identified what they say is officially the largest known object in the universe—a massive cosmic structure that stretches 1.4 billion light-years across and contains ...

The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local universe. At its center, the Tarantula Nebula hosts the most ...