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heic0416 - Photo Release Symphony of colours in the Tarantula
15 December 2004
The Tarantula Nebula is the most vigorous
star forming region known in the local Universe. Using the power of the
freely available ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator package a young
amateur astronomer has created this amazing panorama of the centre of
the Tarantula. The original image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space
Telescope and subsequently retrieved from the ESO/ST-ECF Science
Archive in Munich, Germany.
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is situated 170,000
light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the Southern sky
and is clearly visible to the naked eye as a large milky patch.
Astronomers believe that this smallish, irregular galaxy is currently
going through a violent period in its life cycle. It is orbiting the
Milky Way and has had several close encounters with it. It is believed
that the interaction with the Milky Way has caused an episode of
energetic star formation - part of which is visible as the Tarantula
Nebula. The Tarantula is the largest stellar nursery we know in the
local Universe. In fact if this enormous complex of stars, gas and dust
were at the distance of the Orion Nebula it would be visible during the
day and cover a quarter of the sky....CONTINUE A LER/READ MOREFONTE: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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