Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Trapping of the Tarantula

Tarantula nebula by TRAPPIST

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Original – This first light image of the TRAPPIST national telescope at La Silla shows the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our closest celestial neighbors.

Reason

Excellent EV, high res file of one of the first inages from TRAPPIST.

Articles in which this image appears

BI 253,Caldwell catalogue,First light (astronomy), TRAPPIST

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

TRAPPIST/E. Jehin/ESO

• Support as nominator – The Herald (Benison) (talk) 07:11, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose - Rather underwhelming as astrophoto... --Janke | Talk 09:41, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose – Per Janke. Another interstellar mass of orbs. – Sca (talk) 13:53, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
• comment TRAPPIST isn't really the right instrument for this.©Geni (talk) 09:52, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:53, 14 October 2023 (UTC)