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A New View of the Tarantula Nebula

A New View of the Tarantula Nebula
Date taken Tue Apr 17 2012 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Chandra X-ray Observatory,Hubble Space Telescope,Spitzer Space T Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This composite of 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula, contains data from Chandra blue, Hubble green, and Spitzer red. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula is one of the largest star-forming regions close to the Milky Way.