Wallpaper author:
    Paul Waddington

    15 Jan 2026

    Tarantula Nebula

    The Tarantula Nebula, also known as NGC 2070 and 30 Doradus, is a huge HII region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud


    Stacking done in SAS Pro, background extraction and deconvolution in GraXpert. Star removal (with Starnet++) and statistical stretching in SAS Pro. Further processing in Affinity Photo including denoising with NoiseXterminator.

    Combined L and Ha channels as luminance layer

    Dataset from which the image was processed

    NGC 2070

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    Tarantula Nebula