Tag: Tarantula Nebula

Webb Space Telescope Captures Tarantula Nebula

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula, a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus. The young stars were previously shrouded from view by cosmic dust. Astronomers are using two of Webb’s spectrographs to take a closer look at this region and determine the chemical makeup of a…


Webb Space Telescope Captures the Tarantula Nebula

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula, a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus. The young stars were previously shrouded from view by cosmic dust. Astronomers are using two of Webb’s spectrographs to take a closer look at this region and determine the chemical makeup of a…


Scientists Find an Exotic Black Hole Deemed a ‘Needle in a Haystack’

WASHINGTON—Astronomers have spotted in a galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way what they are calling a cosmic “needle in a haystack”—a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have been born without the explosion of a dying star. Researchers said on Monday this one differs from all other known black…