The massive, young
super star cluster, called
R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the
Tarantula Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the
Large Magellanic Cloud, a
satellite galaxy of our
Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as the Tarantula Nebula. The image, taken in
ultraviolet,
visible, and
infrared light by the
Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100
light-years.
Photo: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce, R. O'Connell, and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee