Sunny Priyan
The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is a vast stellar nursery housing massive stars up to 100 times the Sun’s mass.
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It is an emission nebula, meaning that the intense radiation from its stars ionizes the gas and causes it to glow.
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That gas is widely and thinly spread out over a large area, earning it the added designation of a diffuse nebula.
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The Carina Nebula is about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Carina, the Keel.
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As stars form and emit ultraviolet radiation, their stellar winds sculpt the surrounding gas and dust into dark cloaks or clear openings.
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Using Hubble’s infrared imaging to penetrate dense dust, scientists captured this view of a small, central section of the Carina Nebula.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Kraus