APOD: 2021 January 10 - Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Sunday, January 10, 2021 entitled "Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out."

Image: Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out -Image Credit - NASA, ESA, & F. Paresce (INAF-IASF), R. O'Connell (U. Virginia) et al.

This is an amazing image of a vast section of the heavens which seems to bunched up :-)
Tarantula Nebulan in the 7,000 light-year wide Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) which is over "a mere 170,000 light-years away."

APOD Background
"Explanation: In the center of nearby star-forming region lies a huge cluster containing some of the largest, hottest, and most massive stars known. These stars, known collectively as star cluster R136, part of the Tarantula Nebula, were captured in the featured image in visible light in 2009 through the Hubble Space Telescope. Gas and dust clouds in the Tarantula Nebula, have been sculpted into elongated shapes by powerful winds and ultraviolet radiation from these hot cluster stars. The Tarantula Nebula lies within a neighboring galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud and is located a mere 170,000 light-years away."

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Gorgeous color. Is the color added or does that actually exist, Maj William W. 'Bill' Price?

Excellent astronomy picture share Maj William W. 'Bill' Price , have a blessed Sunday sir.