Spitzer IR Telescope Spots Star Nursery at Nebula's Core
Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/B. BRANDL
The Tarantula Nebula has yielded its secrets to NASA's new infrared observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope. The nebula in the southern sky's Large Magellanic Cloud is the closest "starburst" site, where stars are formed on a massive scale. By stripping away the nebula's obscuring dust, the Spitzer...
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