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Spiders aren’t always what we want for neighbors, but the nearby Tarantula Nebula is an exception! 🕷️

This star-forming site has been caught in Hubble’s web many times, in many wavelengths of light.

It calls the Large Magellanic Cloud home – this is one of our Milky Way’s closest companions, a relatively nearby galaxy that orbits our galaxy, and is about 160,000 light-years away.

The Tarantula Nebula is the brightest stellar nursery in our "Local Group" of galaxies, and it contains some of the most massive and hottest stars known.

#meetyourcosmicneighbors #nasa #hubble #space #science #nebula #stars #astronomy #spider #tarantula

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