SPACE — Stunning new views captured from the Tarantula Nebula. Turbulent clouds of gas and dust swirl among the bright young stars.
Located 161,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus is the largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, the galaxy closest to the Milky Way. The new view comes from the Hubble Space Telescope. The data is aggregated from his observations from deep space.
The Tarantula Nebula hosts the hottest and most massive stars known. This makes it the perfect natural laboratory for testing theories of star formation and evolution. “Various Hubble images of this region have been released to the public in recent years,” the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement.
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The Hubble image captures bright layers of ionized hydrogen gas, which is the main material for the formation of new stars. Then, there was a wispy, hazy cloud, and dark dust that covered it. A cluster of small, bright blue stars can be seen in the lower-left corner of the image, while many much smaller stars are scattered in the background sky.
Reported by Space.com, Monday, February 6, 2022, the new image of the Tarantula Nebula was made from data from two different observations. The first project, called Scylla, aims to study the nature of the dust grains that make up the dark clouds that exist between stars. The second project, called Ulysses, explores how interstellar dust interacts with starlight in those environments.
In the future, another project with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be aimed at studying star formation in conditions similar to those of the early universe. This allows for a clearer catalog of stars in the Tarantula Nebula.
Studying the Tarantula Nebula has helped astronomers better understand how stars are born and evolve. The Webb super telescope launched on December 25, 2021 has also recently investigated this popular region. Webb uncovers thousands of young stars that have never been seen before. Source: Space.com
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