Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular ... glowing gas clouds and the scattered remains of supernova explosions.

Astronomers focused the James Webb Space Telescope on the Tarantula Nebula, one of the brightest and most active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard, and found thousands of young stars ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also ...

The medium size planetary nebula is the final stage of a medium-sized star. The intimidating Tarantula Nebulae is located around 1,61,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Celestial sparkle: The open cluster Westerlund 1, showcased in this new Webb 'Picture of the Month', is located roughly 12,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Ara (the Altar) where ...