Residing in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this giant spider is the largest known nebula — almost 10,000 times the length and a trillion times the volume of the smallest nebulae. If the Sun were the size of a grain of sand, and the largest stars were the size of cars, and the smallest nebula were 1.5 km wide, the Tarantula Nebula would be 10% bigger than the Earth! The nebula houses R136, the most productive star formation hotspot known in the Local Group of galaxies.
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