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Tarantula Nebula, Stan McQueen
Tarantula Nebula
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Tarantula Nebula

Tarantula Nebula, Stan McQueen
Tarantula Nebula
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Tarantula Nebula

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The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, or NGC2070, is a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud and is at a distance of about 160,000 light years from Earth. I took this photo using a remote-controlled telescope at the Siding Springs Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. The telescope is operated by iTelescope.net. This image is a modified-Hubble palette (false color) image composed of sub-images from the hydrogen-alpha, oxygen-iii, and sulfur-ii spectral lines.

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Tarantula Nebula, Stan McQueen