Ever thought of where stars are born? Let me have the honor to take you on a trip to the stellar nurseries called Nebula.
The Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star forming region in the Local Group of galaxies. It is located at around 161,000 light years from Earth in one of Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, LMC or Large Magellanic Cloud. Satellite galaxies are the galaxies which are in a cosmic dance around other galaxies, I mean rotating around other large galaxies. LMC is one such satellite galaxy of Milky Way & guess what fun fact; it is on a collision course with our galaxy. It is the home of Tarantula Nebula or sometimes called 30 Doradus as it is located in the constellation of Doradus.
It is home to the hottest and most massive stars known to us in the universe. The closest supernova observed since the invention of the telescope, Supernova 1987 A occurred in the outskirts of this nebula. Its luminosity is so great that if it were close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, it would cast visible shadows. Thousands of never before seen young stars are spotted in this stellar nursery, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.