The dust and gas in the Tarantula Nebula is the largest stellar nursery in the world.
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The Near-Infrared camera shows the Tarantula Nebula.
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There is a huge cloud of dust and gas. Many of these stars have never been seen before, but they are now being revealed for the first time.
The Large Magellanic Cloud contains the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 161,000 light years away. Astronomers have seen some of the hottest and most massive stars they've ever seen in the vicinity of the nebula.
The massive young stars that form a sparkling blue cluster near the center of the above image have cleared out the gas around them with their powerful radiation and intense stellar winds, showing pillars of relatively dense gas inside which more young stars are forming. The image was taken with the Near-Infrared Camera ( ) and shows the dust that makes up the web of the Tarantula Nebula.
The web takes on a different look in the picture below, because it is seen in longer wavelength by the Mid-infrared Instrument. These wavelengths allow us to peer deeper into the cloud than before, and tiny points of light indicate that the stars are still forming. In the lower left corner, the densest areas of dust block the view of the JWST.
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Astronomers are interested in the Tarantula Nebula because of its rapid rate of star formation, which is unlike anything in our own universe. The universe was at its most intense in the universe's so-called "cosmic noon" when star formation was at its most intense. We might be able to understand the universe's most active time if we compare those observations with the more detailed ones.
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