Travel to the 'star nursery' 160,000 light-years from Earth

The European Astronomical Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) uses images from the VTL Survey telescope at Paranal, Chile observatory to reconstruct a video traveling to the Tarantula nebula, also called 30 Doradus.

Tarantula Nebula.

Tarantula is about 160,000 light-years from Earth, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This galaxy is very close to the Milky Way and has a diameter of 14,000 light-years.

Tarantula is a "star nursery" where many new stars form. Some of these stars can carry 300 times the mass of the Sun.

French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille discovered the Tarantula nebula in 1751. The new video shows a clear picture of star clusters, glowing gas clouds and traces of supernova explosions. scattered.