thewherefores: the-star-stuff: The Tarantula Nebula Located inside the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – one of our closest galaxies – in what some describe as a frightening sight, the Tarantula nebula is worth looking at in detail. Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, the nebula owes its name to the arrangement of its bright patches that somewhat resemble the legs of a tarantula. Taking the name of one of the biggest spiders on Earth is very fitting in view of the gigantic proportions of this celestial nebula — it measures nearly 1,000 light years across ! Its proximity, the favourable inclination of the LMC, and the absence of intervening dust make this nebula one of the best laboratories to better understand the formation of massive stars. This spectacular nebula is energised by an exceptionally high concentration of massive stars, often referred to as super star clusters. This image is based on data acquired with the 1.5 m Danish telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, through three filters (B: 80 s, V: 60 s, R: 50 s). Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, C. C. Thöne, C. Féron, and J.-E.  Hey @ronchronchronch, if you thought my last space picture was scary… Nice, but nebulas of that size aren’t scary. I’ll tell you what’s scary: Andromeda. The largest galaxy of the Local Group, and it’s coming for us. The collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda will create Quasars powerful enough to outshine the Moon from hundreds of thousands of light years away, and either crush, tear apart, or fling the Solar System out of it’s current orbit, either into Andromeda, a farther Milky Way orbit, or the cold of intergalactic space.

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the-star-stuff:

The Tarantula Nebula

Located inside the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – one of our closest galaxies – in what some describe as a frightening sight, the Tarantula nebula is worth looking at in detail. Also known as 30 Doradus or NGC 2070, the nebula owes its name to the arrangement of its bright patches that somewhat resemble the legs of a tarantula. Taking the name of one of the biggest spiders on Earth is very fitting in view of the gigantic proportions of this celestial nebula — it measures nearly 1,000 light years across ! Its proximity, the favourable inclination of the LMC, and the absence of intervening dust make this nebula one of the best laboratories to better understand the formation of massive stars. This spectacular nebula is energised by an exceptionally high concentration of massive stars, often referred to as super star clusters. This image is based on data acquired with the 1.5 m Danish telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory in Chile, through three filters (B: 80 s, V: 60 s, R: 50 s).

Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, C. C. Thöne, C. Féron, and J.-E. 

Hey @ronchronchronch, if you thought my last space picture was scary…

Nice, but nebulas of that size aren’t scary. I’ll tell you what’s scary: Andromeda.

The largest galaxy of the Local Group, and it’s coming for us. The collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda will create Quasars powerful enough to outshine the Moon from hundreds of thousands of light years away, and either crush, tear apart, or fling the Solar System out of it’s current orbit, either into Andromeda, a farther Milky Way orbit, or the cold of intergalactic space.

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