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An image of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, looks like a bouquet of purple flowers with orange stamens. Types of data are represented in different colors: X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is blue and green, optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is yellow, and radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is orange. There is a purple and green bubble-like shape at bottom right. This is a superbubble.

A Stellar Bouquet

This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue and green) with optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow) and radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (orange), this stellar arrangement comes alive.

Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CalTech/SST; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. Arcand

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TakenFebruary 12, 2025
Image CreditX-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CalTech/SST; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. Arcand
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