A nursery of stars, caught in NASA's Webb 🕸️ Officially known as 30 Doradus, this star-forming region is nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula for its long, intricate filaments of dust. It's the largest and brightest such region near our Milky Way galaxy—and it's home to some of the hottest, most massive stars we've ever observed. This image of the Tarantula Nebula was captured by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) aboard NASAWebb. Webb's infrared instruments aren't just giving us a high-definition look into the universe—they're able to peer into clouds of gas and dust that are blocked to visual telescopes and our own eyes. Image description: A space image captured by the Webb telescope. Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tin...