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Samantha Mathewson

Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)

Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years from Earth. .

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, which is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The Tarantula Nebula is one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

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