Wow! Here's Webb's View of the Tarantula Nebula

We have never seen it before, but here it is. 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, is located about 161,000 lightyears away and can be seen thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. There are thousands of never-before-seen young stars in this stellar nursery, as well as incredible views of the dusty filaments and the impressive collection of massive older stars.

If you download the full-sized version, you can see a lot of the details in the image, such as stars and dust. There are even more distant stars. Even better, if you have a big screen, it can take up over 14500 x 8000 The video tour can be viewed below.

The biggest star-forming region in the Local Group, the Tarantula Nebula, is a popular target for telescopes in the south. Here is a mosaic from the Hubble Space Telescope.

There is a view from an astronomer in Australia.

Astronomers say the star formation process still holds many mysteries due to the lack of crisp images of what was happening behind the thick clouds of stellar nurseries. The details that were not seen before are now revealed. Scientists are learning more about how stars are created.

There is a net of dust and gas that looks like it is from a spider. A cluster of massive young stars, which sparkle pale blue in the image, havehollowed out the center of the nebula. Pillars that appear to point back toward the cluster can be seen in the densest areas of the nebula. The pillars contain forming protostars which will eventually emerge from their dusty cocoons.

Astronomers used the Near-Infrared Spectrograph to detect dust-enshrouded stars and the Mid-Infrared Instruments to see a previously unseen Cosmic environment. To compare the different views, you can use a slider.

The view of the Tarantula was taken as part of the Early Release science observations, according to Mark McCaughrean.

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The European Space Agency.