Untangling the Tarantula Nebula.

FEATURES GLO:ast/01sep21:24n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): The Tarantula Nebula is one of the most stunning objects in the southern sky: a vast web of gas shrouding stars bursting into life. Still, neither Milky Way object comes close to matching the Large Magellanic Cloud's Tarantula Nebula: the biggest, brightest, and best emission region in the Local Group of galaxies. The object resided near the northeastern edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the immense nebulous region that astronomers now recognize as a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. [Extracted from the article]
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