Hubble Pics: 30 Doradus Nebula

Posted by michael on Friday July 27, 2001 @01:01AM from the eye-candy dept.

smk writes: "The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile star-forming region, called the 30 Doradus Nebula, has a sparkling stellar centerpiece: the most spectacular cluster of massive stars in our cosmic neighborhood of about 25 galaxies. The ultraviolet radiation and high-speed material unleashed by the stars in the cluster, called R136, are weaving a tapestry of creation and destruction, triggering the collapse of looming gas and dust clouds and forming pillar-like structures that are incubators for nascent stars."

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Atlantis? by Nastard · 2001-07-27 02:31 · Score: 1

"...forming pillar-like structures..."

Uh oh, don't let Yahoo hear about this.
Tarantula Nebula by mgarraha · 2001-07-27 05:59 · Score: 3

This nebula is also known as the Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070. It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud; a supernova appeared nearby in 1987. Southern Hemisphere observers can see the nebula with binoculars.