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Tarantula nebula
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Tarantula nebula
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(Astronomy & Space / Celestial Objects) a huge bright emission nebula located in the S hemisphere in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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Knodlseder revealed an image captured by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) of a star-forming region known as 30 Doradus within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
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