File:Tarantula Nebula - Hubble.jpg

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Description Central portion of the Tarantula Nebula. "This mosaic of the Tarantula Nebula consists of images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) and was created by 23 year old amateur astronomer Danny LaCrue. ... Additional image processing was done by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre."
Date released 15-Dec-2004
Source ESA Hubble Telescope Archive - http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0416a/
Author ESA/NASA, ESO and Danny LaCrue
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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
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