Labelled view of the Tarantula Nebula (heic1206c)

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This annotated map identifies several prominent features in an image of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus), a prominent region of star formation located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) the nearest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. The image was produced from numerous exposures by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys through a filter which isolates red and near-infrared light.Individual starsSome prominent stars are labeled in yellow. Some of these are identified in the Henry Draper Catalog (HD). The stars labeled 2MASS appear in t