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WISE Spies the Tarantula Nebula

WISE Spies the Tarantula Nebula
Date taken Wed Jul 07 2010 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE Metadata JSON

Behind the image

Sending chills down the spine of all arachnophobes is the Tarantula nebula, seen in this image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; the nebula is the largest star-forming region known in our entire Local Group of galaxies.