Don't get caught in the Tarantula Nebula 🕸️ See the thin filaments of gas and dust that snake through this image like a web? That's where the Tarantula Nebula gets its name. Located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a small galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way), the Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region in our area. It's home to the biggest stars we've ever discovered, some 200 times more massive than the Sun. Our NASAHubble team recently released this new image of the nebula. The orbiting Hubble telescope has spent a lot of time studying the Tarantula Nebula—not just for its stunning sights, but for what it can tell us about how stars are born. Image description: A wispy, smoky section of the Tarantula Nebula. Dense red and gray clouds in the top-left corner give way to a thin haze in the bottom-right. Throughout the image, stars and points of light in red, white, and blue shine through. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Mu...