New JWST images just dropped, and seriously, these may be the most beautiful we’ve seen yet . No surprise it’s so gorgeous when it’s of the Tarantula Nebula , one of the most extreme star-forming gas clouds within a few million light-years of us. It’s in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, and is about 160,000 light-years away. It’s immense , hundreds of light years across, dwarfing by far the Orion Nebula. While most nearby nebulae are forming dozens or hundreds of stars, the Tarantula is actively birthing perhaps millions of stars all at once .  There’s a newly born star cluster in its center called NGC 2070 that has hundreds of thousands of stars in it, so huge that it may actually qualify to be a globular cluster .  Ground-based images of the Tarantula are jaw-dropping, with details visible despite being well outside our own galaxy. But the new JWST images are something entirely else.…