The Hubble Space Telescope has released new images of the Tarantula Nebula, some of which will be used for an eBook on stellar evolution for visually impaired students.

According to Space.com, the Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way at 160,000 light years from Earth. The Hubble has captured this star formation before, but the new images are its deepest and most detailed yet.

"The image is dominated by gas and dust, but I can assure you that there are more than 800,000 stars living in this region," Elena Sabbi, of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), said at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society. "To see them, you have to strip away the veil the dust is causing and then you can admire the stars in this region. This is a very efficient way to identify where stars are forming nowadays in the Tarantula Nebula."

The images are a part of the Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project, which aims to better map the nebula to gain a deeper understanding of its makeup. Hubble officials told Space.com conditions in the Tarantula Nebula could very well be similar to those of the early universe.

The new images will also be used in an eBook, called "Reach for the Stars: Touch, Look, Listen and Learn," for visually impaired students.

"We hope it will be an inspiration and attract people to science," Sabbi, the lead researcher of the image analysis, said in a press release. "That's the main goal. We want to convince children that science is cool, is fun, and that anybody could be a scientist, if they want to."

Ed Summers, who is leading the eBook's development, stressed "Reach for the Stars" is not a book for blind children. A team of curriculum specialists, programmers and artists are working on the 90-page, six-chapter book to be released for free on Apple's iBook store in the near future.

"I feel strongly that people with disabilities don't want separate materials," he said in the release. "We want to be able to access the same materials as everybody else, but in a way that adapts to individual needs. That's why we created this mainstream book in a way that would benefit everybody, rather than something that is specifically dedicated to a relatively small audience of students with visual impairments."