The Tarantula Nebula glows with powerful stars and chaotic dust, captured in vivid detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s a star factory outside our galaxy—raging with stellar winds and cosmic ...

A new Utah Valley University study is providing new evidence in a debate astronomers across the world haven’t been able to ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

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

Also known as 30 Doradus, this star-forming region is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way. There are approximately 2,400 stars at the center of the ...

The Tarantula Nebula as seen by Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E. Sabbi February brought us a breathtaking view of the Tarantula Nebula, and from an all-new perspective to boot.

The Tarantula Nebula sounds like it would be a better fit for Halloween than Valentine's Day. But just look at it. You can see why NASA thinks it's an appropriate astronomical gift for a day of ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is dominated by a massive cluster of stars in its center called R136. The stars are both young and massive, and when enough of them are concentrated ...

Found in the center of the star-forming 30 Doradius region near the Milky Way, the Tarantula Nebula’s brilliant colors are a combination of X-ray and Infrared images of the multimillion-degree ...

About 160,000 light-years away lies the brightest star-forming region in our part of the Universe, within the Tarantula Nebula. This picture is one of the largest composites ever assembled from ...