A Grand View of the Birth of 'Hefty' Stars - 30 Doradus Nebula Montage (opo9933d)

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This picture, taken in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2), represents a sweeping view of the 30 Doradus Nebula. But Hubble's infrared camera - the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) - has probed deeper into smaller regions of this nebula to unveil the stormy birth of massive stars. The montages of images in the upper left and upper right represent this deeper view. Each square in the montages is 15.5 light-years (19 arcseconds) across.