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Tarantula Nebula:
Insight Observatory's affiliate remote telescope ATEO-3.
Location: Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile (DeepSkyChile)
Telescope: Quasar 12.5" f/9 Ritchey-Chretien
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Camera: SBIG STL11000
Grayscale Ha: 35x900sec
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula
Part of
The Large Magellanic Cloud
A Milky Way Satellite Galaxy
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Image exposure: 75 minutes.
Image size: 2.12 º x 1.41º.
Image date: 2022-09-25
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311 x 60 second ( 5.1 hours ) of shots of the Giant Tarantula Nebula , located in the southern constellation of Dorado.It is a star forming region located in the Large magellanic cloud roughly 180 thousand light years away from us.It is so large that if it was 1500 light years away like the great Orion Nebula it would take up half of the sky. Telescope used was Sky Watcher Quattro 250P and a QHY 183c Pro cooled camera.
The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Taken Dec 21 and just a re edit as I have clouds here ATM.16 x 60 secs. Canon 60D with optolong L Enhance filter on a Skywatcher Quattro 250P F4 Scope.
NGC2070, The Tarantula Nebula, is a large region of ionized gas surrounding a collection of newly-forming stars at the eastern end of the stellar bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is located approximately 170000 light years away.
It has been several months of less than ideal conditions to setup for Deep Sky Astrophotography, so when we had a clear moonless night last night, I took the opportunity to capture a couple of hours on the Tarantula Nebula. I was concerned that as it had been quite a while since my last image, that I would have forgotten the process. The ASIAir and ZWO equipment worked like clockwork with no issues at all. I managed only 20 x 180 seconds (1 hour) each of Ha and Oiii, but am very happy with the final image.
Equipment Details:
•6 Inch GSO Ritchey-Chretien (RC) F9 1370mm Focal length
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•ZWO ASI1600mm Cmos Camera cooled to -10'c
•ZWO EFW7 Filter Wheel
•Baader 36mm unmounted Ha, Oiii
•Orion ST80 80mm Guide Scope
•ZWO ASI120mm mini Guide Camera
•ZWO ASIAIR Pro for full automation
Exposure Details: (HOO Combination
•Ha 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Red)
•Oiii 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Green)
•Oiii 20X180 seconds - Bin 1x1 (Blue)
Total Integration Time: 2 hours
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus and Caldwell 103, is a massive emission nebula with one of the most active star forming regions known within our Local Group of galaxies. This image only captures part of the entire object, with the Tarantula Nebula spanning some 600 light years in diameter and containing more than 800,000 stars and protostars. It lays outside of our Milky Way galaxy in the satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. At a 180 thousand light years away, its size is so massive that if it were as close as is the Great Orion Nebula is from earth, that it would brightly light up half our nights sky.
Thanks for looking, take care.
Hi res link:
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Information about the image:
Center (RA, Dec):(84.552, -69.192)
Center (RA, hms):05h 38m 12.440s
Center (Dec, dms):-69° 11' 32.261"
Size:44.4 x 32.2 arcmin
Radius:0.457 deg
Pixel scale:0.732 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 330 degrees E of N
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum, Ha, OIII: BIN 1x1, RGB: BIN 2x2
Exposure Details: Total: 62 hours | Lum: 31 x 900 sec [7.75hr], Ha: 102 x 1200 sec [34.0hr], OIII: 43 x 1200 sec [14.33hr], RGB 16 x 450sec each [6.0hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: May 2020 - April 2021
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
Designation: NGC 2070, Caldwell 103
Constellation: Dorado.
Location: Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Visual magnitude: +5.0
Apparent size: 40 x 25 arc-minutes.
Diameter: 1833 light years.
Distance: 160,000 light years.
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Total exposure: 106 min.
SkyWatcher Esprit 120 mm apochromatic 3-element refractor.
Camera: ZWO ASI 071 MC Pro.
Date: 2020-02-19
The largest and brightest region of star formation in the Local Group of galaxies, including the Milky Way, is called 30 Doradus (or, informally, the Tarantula Nebula). Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, 30 Doradus has long been studied by astronomers who want to better understand how stars like the Sun are born and evolve.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has frequently looked at 30 Doradus over the lifetime of the mission, often under the direction of Dr. Leisa Townsley who passed away in the summer of 2022. These data will continue to be collected and analyzed, providing opportunities for scientists both now and in the future to learn more about star formation and its related processes.
This new composite image combines the X-ray data from Chandra observations of 30 Doradus with an infrared image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that was released in the fall of 2022. The X-rays (royal blue and purple) reveal gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by shock waves — similar to sonic booms from airplanes — generated by the winds from massive stars. The Chandra data also identify the remains of supernova explosions, which will ultimately send important elements such as oxygen and carbon into space where they will become part of the next generation of stars.
The infrared data from JWST (red, orange, green, and light blue) show spectacular canvases of cooler gas that provide the raw ingredients for future stars. JWST’s view also reveals “protostars,” that is, stars in their infancy, just igniting their stellar engines. The chemical composition of 30 Doradus is different from most of the nebulas found in the Milky Way. Instead it represents the conditions in our galaxy that existed several billion years ago when stars were forming at a much faster pace than astronomers see today. This, combined with its relative proximity and brightness, means that 30 Doradus provides scientists with an opportunity to learn more about how stars formed in our galaxy in the distant past.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team
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In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. The most active region appears to sparkle with massive young stars, appearing pale blue. Scattered among them are still-embedded stars, appearing red, yet to emerge from the dusty cocoon of the nebula. NIRCam is able to detect these dust-enshrouded stars thanks to its unprecedented resolution at near-infrared wavelengths.
To the upper left of the cluster of young stars, and the top of the nebula’s cavity, an older star prominently displays NIRCam’s distinctive eight diffraction spikes, an artefact of the telescope’s structure. Following the top central spike of this star upward, it almost points to a distinctive bubble in the cloud. Young stars still surrounded by dusty material are blowing this bubble, beginning to carve out their own cavity. Astronomers used two of Webb’s spectrographs to take a closer look at this region and determine the chemical makeup of the star and its surrounding gas. This spectral information will tell astronomers about the age of the nebula and how many generations of star birth it has seen.
Farther from the core region of hot young stars, cooler gas takes on a rust colour, telling astronomers that the nebula is rich with complex hydrocarbons. This dense gas is the material that will form future stars. As winds from the massive stars sweep away gas and dust, some of it will pile up and, with gravity’s help, form new stars.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
The Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus, is located in a nearby satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This region is an active H II area, extremely luminescent, and is located around 160,000 light-years from Earth. To give a little perspective, if this object were to be relocated at an equivalent distance as the Orion Nebula, it would cast visible shadows. (Time to call out the Volgon Constructor Fleet). The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1000 light-years in diameter and is the brightest and most energetic star-forming region in the Local Group of galaxies.
Recently I processed an object NGC1968, which is located in the LMC as well. (This data set was made available for The Astro Imaging Channel workshop) I couldn't help but notice the many similar properties between these two objects — specifically the large about of bright blue stars located within the fields of both images. Their colouring was similar in the RGB component of the images. Both contain an extremely tight luminescent core. I created four different renditions for The Astro Imaging Channel as an experiment to see what each combination of filters would yield. This exercise helped developed a few ideas in how I might approach this data set and attempt to create an interesting rendition of the Tarantula Nebula. Hopefully, I didn't go too far.
The nebula is situated on the leading edge of the LMC where ram pressure is stripping, and compression with the interstellar medium is creating an incredibly twisted and contorted object with incredible dynamic range.
My goals were to create an image that hopefully retains the traditional RGB colour look about it, and reveal that wonderful contrast of small details found in narrowband images. The image is a combination of “Traditional RGB” and “Narrowband Imaging”. I do like stars, and this is definitely a dense starfield. I wanted to retain the amazing array of stars and their colours in the field. Hopefully, the result is not too distracting. The dense concentration of so many blue stars was another feature I wanted to retain.
The bottom left is interesting. There is a nice transition into subtle Dark Nebula, and the stars begin to look like something we see when imaging near our own galactic centre with that reddish hue starting to appear.
The most difficult part of the image was the white columns. No matter what I did in the RGB space, they just didn't seem to have much colour. The ADU values indicated that they were not saturated at all. In fact, they ranged for the most part around 6000-15000 ADU. This would suggest if colour were present, it should present itself with these values fairly easily. So I followed the numbers and went with that. The OIII component was introduced into the blue channel, while the Ha and SII were introduced into the green and red channels. Together, the total exposure is just over 72 hours, both colour and narrowband combined.
Thanks for looking.
Terry
Equipment Details:
•10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
•Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
•SBIG STL 11000m
•FLI Filter Wheel
•Astrodon LRGB Filters
•Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
•Baader Planetarium OIII 8.5nm Narrowband-Filter
•Baader Planetarium SII 8.0nm Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details
•Red56X450 2X2
•Green35X450 2X2
•Blue25X450 2X2
•Lum48X900
•Lum65X100
•Ha39X900
•SII72X900
•OIII66X900
In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. The most active region appears to sparkle with massive young stars, appearing pale blue.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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The image shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young and dense star cluster R136 can be seen at the lower right of the image. This cluster contains hundreds of young blue stars, among them the most massive star detected in the Universe so far. Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers were able to study the central and most dense region of this cluster in detail. Here they found nine stars with more than 100 solar masses.
Credit: NASA, ESA, P Crowther (University of Sheffield)
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NGC2070
I used remote observatory, iTelescope, to took this image.
The plan started at the beginning of September 2019. I acquired L, R, G, B, SII, H-alpha, OIII each 300s*1. I did LRGB, SHO, HOO color mapping, and I found out that the luminous frame is bright (or less noise), but the nebulosity is not as sharp as narrowband frames. Since the SII frame is much dimmer than others, I experimentally took single 900s SII subframe. The Hubble Palette image with S:H:O=9:3:3 still shows water blue color (bule+green) in nebulosity and, badly, very red color in star. I did some google search, notice that there might be not so many SII emission at this place. "Ok, I need to change the strategy." I talked to myself at that time.
After that, I focus on HOO composition. I took an extra nine subframes each with H-alpha and OIII filter. Finally, HOO color nebula combines with LRGB stars makes this image more nature.
The plan will be continuous...
Time: 2019/09
iTelescope T31
OTA: Planewave 20" CDK
Aperture: 510mm
Focal Length: 2259mm
F/Ratio: f/4.4
CCD: FLI-PL09000
LRGB: 300s*1 (each)
H-alpha: 300s*10
OIII: 300s*10
Data Source: iTelescope remote observatory. My friend offers me observe time, and I make the observational plan.
A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Tarantula Nebula is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and its turbulent clouds of gas and dust appear to swirl between the region’s bright, newly formed stars.
The Tarantula Nebula is a familiar site for Hubble. It is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood and home to the hottest, most massive stars known. This makes it a perfect natural laboratory in which to test out theories of star formation and evolution, and Hubble has a rich variety of images of this region. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope also recently delved into this region, revealing thousands of never-before-seen young stars.
This new image combines data from two different observing proposals. The first was designed to explore the properties of the dust grains that exist in the void between stars that make up the dark clouds winding through this image. This proposal, which astronomers named Scylla, reveals how interstellar dust interacts with starlight in a variety of environments. It complements another Hubble program called Ulysses, which characterizes the stars. This image also incorporates data from an observing program studying star formation in conditions similar to the early universe, as well as cataloging the stars of the Tarantula Nebula for future science with Webb.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E. Sabbi; Acknowledgment: Y. -H. Chu
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A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is the most recent Picture of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Tarantula Nebula is a large star-forming region of ionised hydrogen gas that lies 161 000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and its turbulent clouds of gas and dust can be seen swirling between the region’s bright, newly-formed stars.
The Tarantula Nebula is a familiar site for Hubble. It is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighbourhood and home to the hottest, most massive stars known. This makes it a perfect natural laboratory in which to test out theories of star formation and evolution, and a rich variety of Hubble images of this region have been released to the public in recent years. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope also recently delved into this region, revealing thousands of never-before-seen young stars.
This new image combines data from two different observing proposals. The first was designed to explore the properties of the dust grains that exist in the void between stars and which make up the dark clouds winding through this image. This proposal, which astronomers named Scylla, complements another Hubble observing proposal called Ulysses and is revealing how interstellar dust interacts with starlight in a variety of environments. This image also incorporates data from an observing programme studying star formation in conditions similar to the early Universe, as well as cataloguing the stars of the Tarantula Nebula for future science with Webb.
[Image description: Wispy, nebulous clouds extend from the lower-left of the image. At the top and right the dark background of space can be seen through the sparse nebula. Along the left and in the corner are many layers of brightly-coloured gas and dark, obscuring dust. A cluster of small, bright blue stars in the same corner expands out across the image. Many much smaller stars cover the background.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E. Sabbi CC BY 4.0
Acknowledgement: Y.-H. Chu
This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Wayâs satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
This stormy scene shows a stellar nursery known as N159, an HII region over 150 light-years across. N159 contains many hot young stars. These stars are emitting intense ultraviolet light, which causes nearby hydrogen gas to glow, and torrential stellar winds, which are carving out ridges, arcs, and filaments from the surrounding material.
At the heart of this cosmic cloud lies the Papillon Nebula, a butterfly-shaped region of nebulosity. This small, dense object is classified as a High-Excitation Blob, and is thought to be tightly linked to the early stages of massive star formation.
N159 is located over 160 000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula (heic1402), another massive star-forming complex within the LMC. It was previously imaged by Hubbleâs Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which also resolved the Papillon Nebula for the first time.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
A Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha study of a section of the bubbles and swirls of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud (visible in the Southern Hemisphere).
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the irregular satellite dwarf Galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, that is among the closest Galaxies to Earth. There is also a Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), both discovered by Magellan. The Magellanic Clouds are visible from the Southern Hemisphere with the naked eye.
The LMC contains the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of Galaxies. The Local Group comprises more than 54 Galaxies (mostly dwarf Galaxies). The three largest members of the group (in descending order) are the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy.
Wavelength of light:
H-Alpha line 656nm (3nm bandwidth).
Integration time:
18 hours.
Martin
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Taken with an STL11K camera and 33-cm RCOS Telescope.
This image was one of the astronomical photos of the day in 2008.
Stars: RGB
Nebula: HaSIIOIII
Located in the large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbour gallaxy to the Milky way.
In der großen Magellanwolke, eine kleine Nachbargalaxie der Milchstraße.
Aquarell, smallish, 2023
At the longer wavelengths of light captured by its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), Webb focuses on the area surrounding the central star cluster and unveils a very different view of the Tarantula Nebula. In this light, the young hot stars of the cluster fade in brilliance, and glowing gas and dust come forward. Abundant hydrocarbons light up the surfaces of the dust clouds, shown in blue and purple. Much of the nebula takes on a more ghostly, diffuse appearance because mid-infrared light is able to show more of what is happening deeper inside the clouds. Still-embedded protostars pop into view within their dusty cocoons, including a bright group at the very top edge of the image, left of centre.
Other areas appear dark, like in the lower-right corner of the image. This indicates the densest areas of dust in the nebula, that even mid-infrared wavelengths cannot penetrate. These could be the sites of future, or current, star formation.
MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Tomorrow is Halloween and we're celebrating with this spooky picture of the Tarantula Nebula from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and many more!
This ground-based view of the Tarantula Nebula shows the nebula in its entirety. It is the brightest region of star formation in the local Universe. Hubble’s field of view covers just a tiny spot in the upper-right quadrant of this image, though it reveals detail invisible here, including a supernova remnant.
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
Tarantula Nebula:
Insight Observatory's affiliate remote telescope ATEO-3.
Location: Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile (DeepSkyChile)
Telescope: Quasar 12.5" f/9 Ritchey-Chretien
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Camera: SBIG STL11000
Grayscale Ha: 35x900sec
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula
The Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, and contains many interesting sub-features in its own right, including the blue Tarantula Nebula as well as countless other nebulae and clusters. This is a night-sky treasure reserved for the southern hemisphere, and this image was taken from the Spitzkoppe region in Namibia.
2 minute exposures x30, with a Canon 6D and 200mm lens, tracked with a StarAdventurer.
This scene of stellar creation, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, sits near the outskirts of the famous Tarantula Nebula, the largest known stellar nursery in the local universe. Called LHA 120-N 150, this cloud of gas and dust, along with the many young and massive stars surrounding it, is the perfect laboratory to study the origin of massive stars. The nebula is situated more than 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf irregular galaxy that orbits our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, the Tarantula Nebula owes its name to the arrangement of bright patches that somewhat resemble the legs of a tarantula. It measures nearly 1,000 light-years across. Its proximity, the favorable inclination of the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the absence of intervening dust make the Tarantula Nebula one of the best laboratories in which to study the formation of stars, in particular massive stars. This nebula has an exceptionally high concentration of massive stars, often referred to as super star clusters.
Astronomers have studied LHA 120-N 150 to learn more about the environment in which massive stars form. Theoretical models of the formation of massive stars suggest that they should form within clusters of stars; but observations indicate that up to 10 percent of them also formed in isolation. The giant Tarantula Nebula with its numerous substructures is the perfect laboratory in which to resolve this puzzle as in it massive stars can be found both as members of clusters and in isolation.
With the help of Hubble, astronomers are trying to find out whether the isolated stars visible in the nebula truly formed alone or just moved away from their stellar siblings. However, such a study is not an easy task; young stars, before they are fully formed — especially massive ones — look very similar to dense clumps of dust.
LHA 120-N 150 contains several dozen of these objects. They are a mix of unclassified sources — some probably young stellar objects and others probably dust clumps. Only detailed analysis and observations will reveal their true nature, and that will help to finally solve the unanswered question of the origin of massive stars.
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, I. Stephens
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Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) reveals what is really going on in an intriguing region of the Tarantula Nebula. Astronomers focused the powerful instrument on what looked like a small bubble feature in the image from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). However, the spectra reveal a very different picture from a young star blowing a bubble in its surrounding gas.
The signature of atomic hydrogen, shown in blue, shows up in the star itself but not immediately surrounding it. Instead, it appears outside the “bubble,” which spectra show is actually “filled” with molecular hydrogen (green) and complex hydrocarbons (red). This indicates that the bubble is actually the top of a dense pillar of dust and gas that is being blasted by radiation from the cluster of massive young stars to its lower right (see the full NIRCam image). It does not appear as pillar-like as some other structures in the nebula because there is not much colour contrast with the area surrounding it.
The harsh stellar wind from the massive young stars in the nebula is breaking apart molecules outside the pillar, but inside they are preserved, forming a cushy cocoon for the star. This star is still too young to be clearing out its surroundings by blowing bubbles – NIRSpec has captured it just beginning to emerge from the protective cloud from which it was formed. Without Webb’s resolution at infrared wavelengths, the discovery of this star birth in action would not have been possible.
NIRSpec was built for the European Space Agency (ESA) by a consortium of European companies led by Airbus Defence and Space (ADS) with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center providing its detector and micro-shutter subsystems.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
The 2002 Chandra image of the Tarantula Nebula gives scientists a close-up view of the drama of star formation and evolution. The Tarantula, also known as 30 Doradus, is in one of the most active star-forming regions in our Local Group of galaxies. Massive stars are producing intense radiation and searing winds of multimillion-degree gas that carve out gigantic super-bubbles in the surrounding gas. Other massive stars have raced through their evolution and exploded catastrophically as supernovas, leaving behind pulsars and expanding remnants that trigger the collapse of giant clouds of dust and gas to form new generations of stars.
30 Doradus is located about 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy. It allows astronomers to study the details of starbursts - episodes of extremely prolific star formation that play an important role in the evolution of galaxies.
At least 11 extremely massive stars with ages of about 2 million years are detected in the bright star cluster in the center of the primary image (left panel). This crowded region contains many more stars whose X-ray emission is unresolved. The brightest source in this region known as Melnick 34, a 130 solar-mass star located slightly to the lower left of center. On the lower right of this panel is the supernova remnant N157B, with its central pulsar.
Image credit: NASA/CXC/Penn State/L.Townsley et al.
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Our galaxy is surrounded by numerous ‘satellite’ galaxies, the largest being the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC is a complex mix of stars, gas and molecular clouds, and hosts many fascinating celestial objects and features – including the huge and luminous region of 30 Doradus, otherwise known as the Tarantula Nebula. This nebula is the most vigorous known star-forming region in the local Universe, and bright enough to be clearly visible from Earth’s southern hemisphere with the naked eye.
The LMC also houses a feature named the ‘X-ray spur’. Formed of gas so hot that its constituent atoms have split into charged particles (a form of matter known as plasma), the X-ray spur is a large, extended, triangular structure that lies to the south of the Tarantula Nebula and stretches out for almost half the diameter of the LMC itself. The spur emits far more energetic X-rays than we would typically expect from the plasma in a galaxy, and so it has intrigued scientists studying the local cosmos.
Researchers have now used ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to explore the emission streaming from the X-ray spur at multiple wavelengths. They find that the gas making up the spur is far hotter than gas in other parts of the LMC. It is similar to the temperatures found in the region around the Tarantula Nebula, which is heated by the numerous young, massive stars forming within it. However, there are no signs of star formation – either past or present – in the spur.
So, what is causing these extreme temperatures? The scientists think that the spur is heated by two giant clouds of cool hydrogen gas that are in the process of colliding – and heating up their surroundings in the process. These clouds are shown in this image of the south-eastern part of the LMC in green and red, with their mapping based on combined data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array and Parkes 21 cm multibeam survey (both CSIRO, Australia). XMM-Newton’s X-ray data – from the spacecraft’s European Photon Imaging Camera, or EPIC – is shown in blue, and traces the X-ray spur as it lies directly between these two colliding clouds. The researchers predict that the spur will eventually evolve into a stellar nursery like its neighbour, the Tarantula Nebula (see location of the nebula in this image).
Additionally, two sets of contours are overlaid on the image: the cyan contours show carbon monoxide emission from molecular clouds, which are high-density regions that harbour new star-forming regions (based on data from the 4m NANTEN telescope, located at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile and operated by Nagoya University, Japan). The magenta contours, meanwhile, track ‘H-alpha’ emission — patches of hydrogen where incoming radiation from massive stars has caused the gas to lose electrons (based on H-alpha data from the Magellanic Clouds Emission Line Survey, obtained by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile).
The image shows a patch of sky centred at a right ascension (RA) of roughly 5h37m00s and declination (Dec) of approximately -69°30’00” to -70°00’00”. This celestial coordinate system is used to identify locations in space, with Dec and RA being analogous to terrestrial latitude and longitude, respectively.
Credits: Knies et al. (2021)
The Tarantula Nebula is a Southern sky object on the edge of and within the Large Megellanic Cloud (LMC), located about 160,000 LY away.
This image was captured across multiple nights between end of October and first half of November 2019.
Image taken through a 8" SCT using a full spectrum modded and cooled DSLR.
The Tarantula Nebula, NGC 2070, is a large region of ionized gas surrounding a collection of newly-forming stars at the eastern end of the stellar bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is located 170000 light years away.
This image was taken in narrowband using 35 x 3 minute hydrogen A, 15 x 3 minute Oxygen III and 14 x 3 minute SII exposures (total over 3 hours) on an SBIG st2000xm CCD camera cooled to 0'c. It was mounted on a Skywatcher Quattro 8 inch carbon fibre reflector telescope. The payload was carried an a Skywatcher NEQ6 mount, and guided with a Meade DSIii attached to a Skywatcher 102/500 guide scope.
The images were stacked and calibrated by my helper to produce the final image.
NGC2070, The Tarantula Nebula, is a large region of ionized gas surrounding a collection of newly-forming stars at the eastern end of the stellar bar in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is located approximately 170000 light years away.
I noticed a break in the clouds a few nights ago, and was able to quickly set the Seestar up and collect a quick 30 minutes of integration time on the Tarantula Nebula and also 30 minutes on the Statue of Liberty, which I will upload a little later.
Stacked and processed using PixInsight.
Equipment Details:
SeeStar S50
Inbuilt Duo Band Filter (Ha and Oiii)
Exposure Details:
180 x 10 second
Total Integration Time: 30 minutes
Processing old Astrophotography data with new techniques during this period at home.
A starless 3nm Narrowband Hydrogen-Alpha (Hα) study of the dust and gas in the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070), situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (one of the Milky Way's satellite Galaxies).
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the irregular satellite dwarf Galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, that is among the closest Galaxies to Earth. There is also a Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), both discovered by Magellan. The Magellanic Clouds are visible from the Southern Hemisphere with the naked eye.
The LMC contains the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of Galaxies. The Local Group comprises more than 54 Galaxies (mostly dwarf Galaxies). The three largest members of the group (in descending order) are the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos.
Wavelength of light:
H-Alpha line 656nm (3nm bandwidth).
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging Refractor Telescope.
QHY163M camera sensor cooled to -20°C.
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks and Flats.
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
Straton and Photoshop.
Integration time:
22 hours.
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The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
The Tarantula Nebula has an apparent magnitude of 8 at a distance of about 160,000 light-years. Its luminosity is so great that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast shadows.
12 x 5 minutes
Takahashi SKY90 APO f/5.6SBIG ST2000 XMC CMOS Colour CCD
Imaged remotely from SSO
Tarantula Nebula:
Insight Observatory's affiliate remote telescope ATEO-3.
Location: Rio Hurtado Valley, Chile (DeepSkyChile)
Telescope: Quasar 12.5" f/9 Ritchey-Chretien
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Camera: SBIG STL11000
Grayscale Ha: 35x900sec
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula
The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Tarantula Nebula is the most productive star-forming region in the nearby universe, home to the most massive stars known.
The nebula’s colorful gas clouds hold wispy tendrils and dark clumps of dust. This dust is different from ordinary household dust, which may include of bits of soil, skin cells, hair, and even plastic. Cosmic dust is often comprised of carbon or of molecules called silicates, which contain silicon and oxygen. The data in this image was part of an observing program that aims to characterize the properties of cosmic dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud and other nearby galaxies.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray
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Taken with a Sony Cybershot DSC-RX1R Full Frame camera.
NOTE
The glow on the horizon is from a nearby mine, which has subsequently closed.
LINK
Other images from this series:
1. www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51199386058/
2. www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51198465367/
3. www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51199384178/
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa.
Despite being only 10–20% as massive as the Milky Way galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud contains some of the most impressive nearby star-forming regions. The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the local universe. At its center, the Tarantula Nebula hosts the most massive stars known, weighing roughly 200 times the mass of the Sun.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray
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With our powers combined 😎
Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up with the Webb telescope to create a new stunning composite image of the Tarantula Nebula. Chandra's X-rays (shown in royal blue and purple) identify extremely hot gas and supernova explosion remnants, while Webb reveals forming baby stars.
Unlike most nebulas in our Milky Way, the Tarantula Nebula has a chemical composition similar to that of conditions in our galaxy several billion years ago — when star formation was at its peak. For astronomers, this nebula is the perfect window into how stars formed in our galaxy in the distant past.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3iFT0Lh
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team
Image description: Composite image of the Tarantula Nebula: Royal blue and purple gas clouds interact with red and orange gas clouds, as specks of light and large gleaming stars peek through. The blue and purple patches represent X-ray data from Chandra. The most striking blue cloud is shaped like an upward pointing triangle at the center. Wispy white clouds outline this blue triangle. Inside this frame is a gleaming star with six long, thin spikes. Beside it is a cluster of smaller bright blue specks showing young stars in the nebula. Darker X-ray clouds can be found near the right and left edges of the image. The red and orange gas clouds, which look like roiling fire, represent infrared data from Webb.
This is the Large Magellanic Cloud, the main Local Group member and a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, some 160,000 light years away, It is visible only from the southern hemisphere. Nowhere else in the sky do we see such a profuse collection of star-forming nebulas as here in this frame the width typical of binocular fields, about 7.5° by 5º.
The LMC is a dwarf irregular galaxy though with structures that resemble a barred spiral galaxy. Tidal disruptions caused by its passage near our Galaxy are sparking an intense level of star formation and star death – some of the nebulas are bubbles blown out by exploding or dying stars.
The main region of nebulosity is the massive Tarantula Nebula complex (NGC 2070) at left, with its twisted and tortured structure. The other main area is the NGC 1763 complex at upper right. At upper left are the nebulas NGC 2020 and NGC 1955, among many others. At lower right is the NGC 1748 complex. At lower left is NGC 2018.
However, the region is so rich it is hard to identify which object is which, especially as most atlases don't agree on the labels. Even amateur photos such as this reveal patches of nebulosity that are not plotted as such on star charts.
While many of the nebulas are red or pink from hydrogen alpha emission, many are cyan from predominant oxygen III emission.
This is a blend of images taken through a dual-band nebula filter and without any filter. This is a stack of 12 x 10-minute exposures at ISO 3200 through an IDAS NBZ dual-band (OIII and H-a) filter that adds most of the nebulosity, blended with a stack of 20 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 800 with no filter for the main "natural light" background content.
The Canon EOS R camera I used was modified by AstroGear.net to be more sensitive to H-a light. It was on the little Sharpstar 61mm EDPH III refractor with its Reducer for f/4.4, and on the Astro-Physics AP400 mount autoguided with the Lacerta MGEN III stand-alone auto-guider. Inter-frame dithering eliminated hot pixels on this warm night. No dark frames were employed.
Taken March 4, 2024 on a perfect autumn night at the Mirrabook Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia and down the hill, literally, from the Siding Spring Observatory. While the camera was shooting I enjoyed touring the southern Milky Way with binoculars. It was stargazing heaven!
This new Hubble image shows a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula in infrared light. This region is full of star clusters, glowing gas, and thick dark dust. Created using observations taken as part of the Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP), this image was snapped using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP) is scanning and imaging many of the many millions of stars within the Tarantula, mapping out the locations and properties of the nebula's stellar inhabitants. These observations will help astronomers to piece together an understanding of the nebula's skeleton, viewing its starry structure.
Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Sabbi (STScI)
Read more:
sci.esa.int/hubble/53584-unravelling-the-web-of-a-cosmic-...
The Tarantula nebula known as 30 Doradus and part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Photographed using Telescope live. Stacked with Photoshop and coloured with siril software
One of the first targets for my newly acquired Nikon 180mm f2.8 lens taken at Lake Eildon in Victoria, Australia. Very keen to try this with my h-apha enhanced 7D but I think the extra magnification of the crop sensor will make framing a little difficult.
Acquisition details:
20 x 1 minute subs @ ISO 1600
Unmodified Canon 6D, Nikon 180mm f2.8 @ f4
Astrotrac TT320X-AG
No calibration frames, stacked and edited in CC
What’s that caught in our Webb? A giant space tarantula!
Take a moment to stare into thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula. The James Webb Space Telescope reveals details of the structure and composition of the nebula, as well as dozens of background galaxies.
Stellar nursery 30 Doradus gets its nickname of the Tarantula Nebula from its long, dusty filaments. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, it’s the largest and brightest star-forming region near our own galaxy, plus home to the hottest, most massive stars known.
At the longer wavelengths of light captured by its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), Webb focuses on the area surrounding the central star cluster and unveils a very different view of the Tarantula Nebula. In this light, the young hot stars of the cluster fade in brilliance, and glowing gas and dust come forward. Abundant hydrocarbons light up the surfaces of the dust clouds, shown in blue and purple.
Why is this nebula interesting to astronomers? Unlike in our Milky Way, the Tarantula Nebula is producing new stars at a furious rate. Though close to us, it is similar to the gigantic star-forming regions from when the universe was only a few billion years old, and star formation was at its peak — a period known as “cosmic noon.” Since the Tarantula is close to us, it is easy to study in detail to help us learn more about the universe’s past.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/a-cosmic-tarantula-caug...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Image description:
A space image captured by the Webb telescope. Wispy pale pink and yellow nebula clouds are highlighted with purple, ghostly pink, and glowing electric blue streaks. These clouds surround a large black cavity. A few small blue stars are sprinkled at the right edge of the cavity and in the cloud. A large clump of blue dust floats amid the small blue stars. There are a few occasional bright pink spots and larger, brighter white stars. One large blue star stands out at the top of the cavity, featuring short blue spikes and snowflake-like arms. A couple other stars in the cloud also appear like tiny snowflakes instead of points of light.
Editor's note: posted in large size -- the better to enjoy the details, my dear. :)
To celebrate its 22nd anniversary in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a dramatic new image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula because its glowing filaments resemble spider legs. A new image from all three of NASA's Great Observatories - Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer - has also been created to mark the event.
30 Doradus is located in the neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, and is one of the largest star-forming regions located close to the Milky Way . At the center of 30 Doradus, thousands of massive stars are blowing off material and producing intense radiation along with powerful winds. The Chandra X-ray Observatory detects gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by these stellar winds and also by supernova explosions. These X-rays, colored blue in this composite image, come from shock fronts -- similar to sonic booms -- formed by this high-energy stellar activity.
The Hubble data in the composite image, colored green, reveals the light from these massive stars along with different stages of star birth including embryonic stars a few thousand years old still wrapped in cocoons of dark gas. Infrared emission from Spitzer, seen in red, shows cooler gas and dust that have giant bubbles carved into them. These bubbles are sculpted by the same searing radiation and strong winds that comes from the massive stars at the center of 30 Doradus.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.
Read entire caption/view more images: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/30dor/
Caption credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Read more about Chandra:
p.s. You can see all of our Chandra photos in the Chandra Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/chandranasa/ We'd love to have you as a member!
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The Tarantula Nebula is a Southern sky object on the edge of and within the Large Megellanic Cloud (LMC), located about 160,000 LY away.
This image was captured across multiple nights between end of October and first half of November 2019.
This image consists of the same narrowband data as used for the SHO version except that the SII/HII were used as RED and the GREEN and BLUE channels from OIII subs were used as their real colors. The end result ended up looking way too red so I toned down the red hue to finish on this photo of the Tarantula Nebula.
Image taken through a 8" SCT using a full spectrum modded and cooled DSLR.
Taken from Savannah Skies Observatory using a Canon EOS Ra and 400 mm lens.
LINK
Other images from this series:
1. M8 and M20: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050919231/
2. M16: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050319198/
3. NGC 6188: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51051043096/
4. M78: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050317763/
5. Rho Ophiuchus: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51051288802/
6. Tarantula Nebula: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51051288607/
7. Vela SNR: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050478748/
What’s that caught in our Webb? A giant space tarantula!
Take a moment to stare into thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula. The James Webb Space Telescope reveals details of the structure and composition of the nebula, as well as dozens of background galaxies.
Stellar nursery 30 Doradus gets its nickname of the Tarantula Nebula from its long, dusty filaments. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, it’s the largest and brightest star-forming region near our own galaxy, plus home to the hottest, most massive stars known.
This image is a side-by-side of the near-infrared view captured by NIRCam (left) and the mid-infrared view captured by MIRI.
In NIRCam's view, the center of this image has been hollowed out by the radiation from young, massive stars (seen in sparkling pale blue). Only the densest surrounding areas of the nebula resist erosion, forming the pillars that appear to point back towards the cluster of stars in the center. The pillars are home to still-forming stars, which will eventually leave their dusty cocoons and help shape the nebula.
At the longer wavelengths of light captured by its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), Webb focuses on the area surrounding the central star cluster and unveils a very different view of the Tarantula Nebula. In this light, the young hot stars of the cluster fade in brilliance, and glowing gas and dust come forward. Abundant hydrocarbons light up the surfaces of the dust clouds, shown in blue and purple.
Why is this nebula interesting to astronomers? Unlike in our Milky Way, the Tarantula Nebula is producing new stars at a furious rate. Though close to us, it is similar to the gigantic star-forming regions from when the universe was only a few billion years old, and star formation was at its peak — a period known as “cosmic noon.” Since the Tarantula is close to us, it is easy to study in detail to help us learn more about the universe’s past.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/a-cosmic-tarantula-caug...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Image descriptions:
(left/NIRCam)
A space image captured by the Webb telescope. Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny pale blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob, resembling a spider or a squid structure. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout the image.
(right/MIRI)
A space image captured by the Webb telescope. Wispy pale pink and yellow nebula clouds are highlighted with purple, ghostly pink, and glowing electric blue streaks. These clouds surround a large black cavity. A few small blue stars are sprinkled at the right edge of the cavity and in the cloud. A large clump of blue dust floats amid the small blue stars. There are a few occasional bright pink spots and larger, brighter white stars. One large blue star stands out at the top of the cavity, featuring short blue spikes and snowflake-like arms. A couple other stars in the cloud also appear like tiny snowflakes instead of points of light.
The Tarantula & Dragon Face nebula region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
The LMC is a companion satellite galaxy of our Milkyway 163,000LY away and only visible from the southern hemisphere.
Taken through a 8" SCT at f1.9 with a Hyperstar reducer using a QHY268M camera, in RGB natural colour, with added H-Alpha & OIII narrowband signal to emphasize the fainter, more subtle, nebulosity.
Guided with an 80mm refractor at 500mm FL and tracked on a hypertuned CGEM mount.
The total integration time for this photo was only 14 hours and 45 minutes.