Blowing bubbles in outer space

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home to some of the most intense regions of star formation, producing the brightest and most intriguing sights in our galactic neighbourhood at a distance of

160,000-light-years away. This is the Tarantula Nebula, flaunting its spidery filaments of gas where new stars are born and illuminate the surrounding cold gas. It's accompanied by the Honeycomb Nebula, which was found

serendipitously by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory (ESO)'s New Technology Telescope when they were imaging nearby SN1987A - the closest observed supernova to Earth

for over 400 years.