Colorful Collage of Tarantula Nebula

NASA used four telescopes—the Chandra X-ray Observatory, James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble, and the retired Spitzer—to create a new composite image of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, roughly one hundred sixty thousand light-years from Earth. The image reveals thousands of young stars embedded in a honeycomb-like structure of gas and dust. Per NASA, the nebula may be losing energy from several sources, including hot gas escaping into space.

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