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✨Tarantula Nebula✨

A Pretty Rockin' Nebula

Description: OMG LOOK AT IT!!! IT'S SO PRETTYYYY ACWEMFSALVHAGNLKJMFASL

Here are some facts about the Tarantula Nebula:

Radius: 931 light-years
Distance to Earth: 159,800 light-years
Surface Tempurature: 3,365 (K) kelvin
Coordinates: RA 5h 38m 38s | Dec -69° 5′ 42″
Constellation: Dorado
Spectral Type: Emission Nebula
Discovery Date: The Tarantula Nebula was observed by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille during an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope between 1751 and 1753.

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Fun Fact: It's luminosity is so great that if it were as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, the Tarantula Nebula would cast shadows.

Oooh! A giant gas bomb! that is obviously the Tarantula Nebula!It's not obvious

NASA, ESA, ESO, D. Lennon and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI), J. Anderson, S. E. de Mink, R. van der Marel, T. Sohn, and N. Walborn (STScI), N. Bastian (Excellence Cluster, Munich), L. Bedin (INAF, Padua), E. Bressert (ESO), P. Crowther (Sheffield), A. de Koter (Amsterdam), C. Evans (UKATC/STFC, Edinburgh), A. Herrero (IAC, Tenerife), N. Langer (AifA, Bonn), I. Platais (JHU) and H. Sana (Amsterdam), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.