This Hubble image shows part of the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The colors seen in this picture are different from what we normally see in the images of the Large Magellanic Cloud because an unusual set of filters was used. The customary R filter, which passes red light, was replaced by a filter letting through the near-infrared light. Hydrogen gas normally appears pink because it shines most brightly in the red. In this case, however, other less prominent emission lines dominate in the blue and green filters.
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Here’s another of the first pictures taken by the SuperBIT telescope. It’s the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image was taken while the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope floated in a near-space environment 33 km (108,000 ft) above Earth’s surface. The SuperBIT telescope operates in the visible-to-near-ultraviolet light spectrum, which is within the Hubble Space Telescope’s capabilities, but SuperBIT has a wider field of view. Its main purpose is to map dark matter around galaxy clusters by measuring the way these massive objects warp the space around them.
This is a closeup of the Tarantula Nebula (aka 30 Doradus), a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud 161,000 light-years from Earth. It is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood and home to the hottest, most massive stars known.
NGC 1858 is an open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. It contains an abundance of star-forming regions. NGC 1858 is relatively young by astronomical standards, estimated to be only around 10 million years old.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite of the Milky Way containing about 30 billion stars. In this combined radio and near infrared view the LMC’s cool and warm dust are shown in green and blue, respectively, and hydrogen gas in red. The image is composed of data from the European Space Agency Herschel and Planck missions; two retired NASA missions, the Infrared Astronomy Survey and Cosmic Background Explorer; and the ground-based Parkes, ATCA, and Mopra radio telescopes.
This Hubble image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen the lower right of the image. This cluster contains hundreds of young blue stars. One of them is the most massive star detected in the universe to date.
This chaotic mass of gas and dust is the supernova remnant known as N 63A. It’s about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
