Tarantula Nebula (NGC2070) | |||||||||||||||
The Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070 is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. It is only visible from the southern hemispere, and is one of the brightest and most massive emission nebulae. It shines with nearly the same apparent magnitude as The Great Orion Nebula, but it is located more than 100 times further away, at a distance of 179.000ly | |||||||||||||||
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