January 2006
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is a hotbed of star-formation situated 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the Southern sky. Just to the right of centre of the image there is a huge cluster of very hot young stars called R136.
Credit:ESA/NASA, ESO and Danny LaCrue
About the Calendar
| Id: | cal200601 |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Month: | 1 |
