The Top 100 Hubble Pictures Series. Today we are travelling to the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic ...

Hubble captures a detailed image of the Tarantula Nebula The nebula features cosmic dust crucial for star formation Scientists study dust’s role in planetary evolution ...

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...

Chandra, Hubble and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array teamed up for this star-studded portrait of 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula.

Hubble captures a detailed image of the Tarantula Nebula Cosmic dust plays a key role in star and planet formation The nebula hosts some of the most massive known stars ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

In a way, these stars' cradles are also their graves. To emphasize the point, the most recent supernova to be visible to the naked eye, SN 1987A, exploded on the outskirts of 30 Doradus.