Tarantula Nebula resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and several of these stars are so old they are now supernovae.
The pick for 1999 is of a sea of stars found in the Tarantula Nebula – but don’t let the name scare you. The nebula resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and several of these stars are so old they are now supernovae. The blasts achieve speeds of 200 miles per second, causing the matter to form the different shapes that can be seen in the upper left corner.