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A massive laboratory
18 MAR. 2020 publication date 6567 Views

This image shows a region of space called LHA 120-N150. It is a substructure of the gigantic Tarantula Nebula. The latter is the largest known stellar nursery in the local Universe. The nebula is situated more than 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring dwarf irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

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ESA/Hubble, NASA, I. Stephens; CC BY 4.0

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CC BY 4.0 INT or ESA Standard Licence

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