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A portion of the Tarantula Nebula, made of variously colored layers of dust clouds. One upper layer is dark reddish dust which is dense and obscures light, in places so dense that it appears black. A middle layer holds pale clouds that are thick like curling wisps of smoke. They form a broad bow across the center of the image. Many small, bright stars lie throughout the nebula. They appear as blue, purple or red depending on depth.

Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray

TakenFebruary 10, 2025

Image CreditESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray

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