Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope combine to reveal a vibrant view of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, in this image from 11 August 2026. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way approximately 160,000 light-years from Earth, the Tarantula contains thousands of young stars embedded in a honeycomb-like structure of vibrant gas and dust.
By studying data from Chandra, Hubble and Webb, combined with data from the agency's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers determined that the Tarantula Nebula could be losing energy from several sources, including hot gas escaping from the nebula.
