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NGC 2070 - Tarantula Nebula, BrettD
NGC 2070 - Tarantula Nebula
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NGC 2070 - Tarantula Nebula

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NGC 2070 - Tarantula Nebula

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The Tarantula nebula is huge and bright, over 100 times larger than the famous Orion nebula.
Unlike most nebula imaged by amateur astronomers, the Tarantula is not inside our milky way galaxy, it lies 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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NGC 2070 - Tarantula Nebula, BrettD

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