🌫️ Nebula
Tarantula Nebula
A huge star nursery with spidery arms, in a galaxy next to ours.
- Distance
- 170,000 light-years away
Did you know?
- It is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy circling the Milky Way.
- It holds some of the most massive stars known.
- From the southern half of Earth it can be seen without a telescope, even from 170,000 light-years away.
Photographed or visited by
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
More NASA photos of Tarantula NebulaStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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All of deep space
The Sun
Our star, an ordinary one that keeps everything here alive.
Betelgeuse
A red supergiant in Orion that will one day explode.
Alpha Centauri
The closest star system to the Sun.
Eta Carinae
A pair of giant stars, one of them about 90 times heavier than the Sun.
Mira
A red giant star racing through space with a tail like a comet.
Zeta Ophiuchi
A runaway star, flung out when its partner exploded.