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TARANTULA NEBULA HIGH RESOLUTION SPACE IMAGES

Image credits: ESA / NASA, ESO and Danny LaCrue
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The Tarantula Nebula has an apparent magnitude of 8.

Considering its distance of about 180,000 lightyears, this is an extremely luminous object.

The Tarantula Nebula's luminosity is so bright that if it were as close to Earth as the
Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast shadows.

In fact, the Tarantula Nebula is the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of galaxies...

See caption source for more information.

ALSO the original spacetelescope release: www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0416a.html

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