This week's #HubbleFriday takes us on a journey to the edges of the Tarantula Nebula, a star formation region located about 160,000 light-years away.

The Tarantula Nebula is known as the largest and most active star factory in our nearby universe. At the center of the nebula are the largest known stars, about 200 times the mass of the Sun!

Image description:

A cross-section through a nebula with layers of colored gas clouds of varying thickness. In the background are bluish, translucent and thin clouds; above them are redder and darker, clumpy dust bands, mostly at the bottom and to the right. Small stars are scattered throughout the nebula.

Image credits: ESA/Hubble, NASA and C. Murray