Tarantula Nebula captured by James Webb Space Telescope | USA TODAY #Shorts
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula.
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The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region resembles a burrowing tarantula’s home, lined with its silk," NASA said Tuesday.
The Tarantula Nebula sits 161,000 light-years away from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. Home to some of the biggest and hottest stars ever known, the Tarantula Nebula is the largest star-forming region within the galaxies closest to the Milky Way, according to NASA.
A nebula is a gigantic cloud of dust and gas in space. Some nebulae, like the Tarantula Nebula, are known as "star nurseries" because new...