The Tarantula Nebula: Portrait of a Stellar Crib in Dorado | ESO
One square degree image of the Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings. The spidery nebula is seen in the upper-center of the image. Slightly to the lower-right, a web of filaments harbors the famous supernova SN 1987A. Many other reddish nebulae are visible in the image, as well as a cluster of young stars on the left, known as NGC 2100.
Distance: 170,000 light years
Technical information: This image is based on observations carried out by Joao Alves (Calar Alto, Spain), Benoit Vandame and Yuri Beletsky (ESO) with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at the 2.2-m telescope on La Silla. These data consist of a 2x2 WFI mosaic in the B- and V-bands, and in the H-alpha and [OIII] narrow bands. The data were first processed with the ESO/MVM pipeline by the Advanced Data Products (ADP) group at ESO.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/R. Fosbury (ST-ECF)
Release Date: December 21, 2006
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