NASA and ESA share a breathtaking Hubble image of the outer edge of the Tarantula Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope is still cruising along more than 30 years after its launch, observing the universe and sending us home images for reference. this week, NASA The European Space Agency highlighted a Hubble-captured image of the high-throughput Tarantula Nebula (officially named 30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a sight.

The Tarantula Nebula is “the largest and most productive star-forming nebula in the local universe,” with stars about 200 times as large as the Sun at its center, according to NASA. This Hubble view gives us a look at the outskirts of the nebula, revealing layers of colorful gas and stars. The Tarantula Nebula is located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy.

Although the end result we see is full of brilliant color, Hubble’s images are initially gray. like He explained, “Scientists can create a composite color image by exposure with different color filters on the telescope, assigning a color to each filter that corresponds to the wavelength of that filter, and combining the images.” The new image of the Tarantula Nebula represents not only visible light, but ultraviolet and infrared light as well. In such a case, the colors are assigned to those wavelengths that we cannot normally see.