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Spidery Star Lanes [1]

This composite image shows lanes of starbirth in the Tarantula Nebula, a vast stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way. The background image, shot at visible and infrared wavelengths, shows clusters of hot young stars and clouds of hydrogen gas that are being shredded by winds and radiation from the powerful stars. The bright yellow-orange filaments were imaged at radio wavelengths, and show regions where stars continue to form at a rapid rate. [ESO/ALMA/Wong et al., ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey]

composite view of tarantula nebula
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