Thursday 6 September 2012

Carina Nebula

This is the Carina Nebula, between 6,500 and 10,000 light years away from Earth in a constellation of the same name. This single pillar of gas and dust measures three light years in height; the red and purple hues of the nebula come from hot hydrogen gas interacting with ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's massive young stars that are buried within it.

Photo: This is the Carina Nebula, between 6,500 and 10,000 light years away from Earth in a constellation of the same name. This single pillar of gas and dust measures three light years in height; the red and purple hues of the nebula come from hot hydrogen gas interacting with ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's massive young stars that are buried within it.

More images: http://lpb.fieldofscience.com/2010/04/within-carina-nebula.html

-TEL 

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