Wild pics of huge ‘space tarantula’ lurking 161,000 light-years from Earth

A MONSTROUS “space tarantula” lurking 161,000 light-years from Earth has been captured along with never-before-seen stars in new photos from Nasa.

Nasa revealed the latest photos from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday, which have revealed the “space tarantula”

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These images were focused specifically on the Tarantula Nebula, which is a mass of interstellar gas and dust and is home to numerous stars.

The Tarantula Nebula is 340 light-years across, according to AccuWeather.

It is also in the same galactic neighborhood as the Milky Way.

The nebula is 340 light-years across and is the largest and brightest star-forming region in the galactic neighborhood where the Milky Way resides.

“Nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula for the appearance of its dusty filaments in previous telescope images, the nebula has long been a favorite for astronomers studying star formation,” NASA said.

“The region resembles a burrowing tarantula’s home, lined with silk.”

While the Hubble Space Telescope has previously captured images of the Tarantula Nebula, the new Webb telescope reveals more details.

Nasa combined images from both the Hubble and Webb telescopes to create these new images.

This is a plan Nasa says will be used going forward.

“Hubble and Webb will work together to showcase the universe across multiple wavelengths of light,” NASA said.

“Two space telescopes, twice the star power.”

Nasa also said that this part of space is constantly creating new stars, making it exciting to photograph.

“One of the reasons the Tarantula Nebula is interesting to astronomers is that the nebula has a similar type of chemical composition as the gigantic star-forming regions observed at the universe’s ‘cosmic noon,’ when the cosmos was only a few billion years old, and star formation was at its peak,” NASA explained.

“This makes the Tarantula the closest example of what was happening in the universe as it reached its brilliant high noon.”