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Space Spider
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The Tarantula Nebula is thought to contain more than half a million times the mass of the Sun in gas and hosts some of the most massive stars known. The nebula measures nearly 1,000 light-years across and if it were in our own Galaxy, it would cover one quarter of the sky and even be visible in daylight.

Credit: ESO & Keifer who pointed me in the right direction :-)

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