Carina Nebula landscapes
[top] - An approximately one-light-year tall "pillar" of cold hydrogen towers above the wall of the molecular cloud. The 2.5-million-year-old star cluster called Trumpler 14 appears at the right side of the image. A small nugget of cold molecular hydrogen, called a Bok globule, is silhouetted against the star cluster.
[middle] - Detailed view of the central portion of the Carina Nebula near the so-called Keyhole Nebula.
[bottom] - These great clouds of cold hydrogen resemble summer afternoon thunderheads. They tower above the surface of a molecular cloud on the edge of the nebula. So-called "elephant trunk" pillars resist being heated and eaten away by blistering ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's brightest stars.
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About the Image
| Id: | heic0707e |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 24 April 2007, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0707 |
| Size: | 1280 x 1973 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Nebula |
| Distance: | 7500 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical H-alpha + Nii |
656 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical Oiii |
501 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical H-alpha + Nii |
658 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical Sii |
672 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
