esahubble_opo0331b November 6th, 2003
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera, shows a three light-year-wide portion of the Carina Nebula, which has a diameter of over 200 light-years. This region in the Carina Nebula is between two large clusters of some of the hottest and most massive stars known. The dramatic dark dust knots and complex structures captured in this image are sculpted by the high-velocity stellar winds and high-energy radiation from an ultra-luminous variable star called Eta Carinae.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0331b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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