Topic: Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus): A New View of the Tarantula Nebula

[sam]

To celebrate its 22nd anniversary in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has released a dramatic new image of the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula because its glowing filaments resemble spider legs. A new image from all three of NASA's Great Observatories - Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer - has also been created to mark the event.

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/30dor/

[Clive]

Wow!  That was another very easy object with my binoculars.  It's within the Large Magellanic Cloud and as obvious as the Jewel Box cluster in the southern Milky Way.  That picture is truly stunning and I hasten to add that it didn't appear like that in my 10x40's.   

[sam]

in your binoculars did it look more like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/starrydude/3929626050/

[Clive]

Only from the Falkland Islands.   

[sam]