TheTarantula Nebula is a massive star-forming region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way about 160,000 light-years away from Earth, which makes it one of the very few extragalactic nebulae we can observe in detail.

Spanning over 900 light-years in diameter, the Tarantula nebula is one of the largest and most luminous known star-forming regions in our cosmic neighborhood.

Even though it was discovered in the mid 18th century, it got its informal name "Tarantula" in the mid 20th century, once it's full structure got revealed in photographic images.

About the Deep Space Collection:

Shot entirely with my rooftop telescope from the urban skies of Buenos Aires, the Deep Space Collection features many objects observable only from the southern hemisphere.

All images in the collection were shot using individual narrowband filters which cut off most of the light and allow only very specific wavelengths to pass (the light emitted from ionized hydrogen, oxygen and sulfur), making it possible to photograph deep space objects even from the highly light polluted skies of the city.

The images from each separate filter are then processed individually, combined and mapped to RGB channels for a final color image.

Two different color mapping palettes were used in this collection: SHO, where sulfur is mapped to red, hydrogen to green and oxygen to blue in what is referred to as "Hubble Palette" processing (as used in the images the famous space telescope) and HOO, where hydrogen is mapped to red, and oxygen to blue and green.