Plunge Into One of the Largest Star Nurseries in the Near Universe

I hope you're sitting down, because my goal here is to reduce your brain to a small pile of gibbering goo. Luckily, I have help. Behold, the Tarantula Nebula! Holy WOW. This composite image by Robert Gendler and Roberto Colombari is incredibly beautiful ... and it's not even anywhere near full size here. Step one in brain destruction is to click here for the staggering 6,000 x 4,858 pixel version. Gendler and Colombari combined data from Hubble and the Widefield Imager on the 2.2 meter MPG/ESO i...