NGC 3324
Carina Nebula (NIRCam Narrowband Filters)
Image of the Cosmic Cliffs, a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This image shows invisible near-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colors.
NGC 3324
Carina Nebula Jets (NIRCam Narrowband Filters)
Dozens of previously hidden jets and outflows from young stars are revealed in this new image of the Cosmic Cliffs from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The Cosmic Cliffs, a region at the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, has long intrigued...
NGC 3324
NIRCam Compass Image of the “Cosmic Cliffs” in Carina
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured...
NGC 3324
Combined NIRCam and MIRI Compass Image of the “Cosmic Cliffs” in Carina
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combined the capabilities of the telescope’s two cameras to create a never-before-seen view of a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), this...
NGC 3324
NIRCam Image of the “Cosmic Cliffs” in Carina
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured...
NGC 3324
Combined NIRCam and MIRI Image of the “Cosmic Cliffs” in Carina
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combined the capabilities of the telescope’s two cameras to create a never-before-seen view of a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), this...
Eta Carinae
Giant Star Yields New Clues About Turbulent Life
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant, petulant star Eta Carinae is yielding new surprises.
Trumpler 14
Hubble Unveils a Tapestry of Dazzling Diamond-Like Stars
Some of the Milky Way's "celebrity stars" — opulent, attention-getting, and short-lived — can be found in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the glittering star cluster called Trumpler 14. It is located 8,000 light-years away in the Carina Nebula, a huge star-formation region in our galaxy....
Carina Nebula Pillar
Cosmic Ice Sculptures: Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the Carina Nebula Pillar, located 7,500 light-years away.
HH 901
Wide View of 'Mystic Mountain'
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope wide-field visible image of HH 901 and HH 902 in the Carina Nebula.
HH 901
Hubble Captures Spectacular "Landscape" in the Carina Nebula
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged HH 901 and HH 902 located 7,500 light-years away.
HH 901
Hubble's Wide View of 'Mystic Mountain' in Infrared
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope wide-field infrared image of HH 901 and HH 902 in the Carina Nebula.
HH 901
Visible View of Pillar and Jets HH 901/902
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged HH 901 and HH 902 in visible light.
HH 901
Infrared View of Pillar and Jets HH 901/902
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged HH 901 and HH 902, located 7,500 light-years away, in infrared light.
Eta Carinae
WFPC2 Image of Eta Carinae
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged Eta Carinae which is located 7,500 light-years away.
Carina Nebula
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a...
Dark Globula in NGC 3372
Dark Globule and Stellar Jet in the Carina Nebula
The tadpole-looking feature in the center of this image is a nodule of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust. The image offers circumstantial evidence that a young star is being born inside the placental cloud. The diagonal feature may be caused by twin jets of gas blasting away from the hidden...
Carina Nebula
Star-Forming Region in the Carina Nebula: Detail 1
A towering "mountain" of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust is the site of new star formation in the Carina Nebula. The great gas pillar is being eroded by the ultraviolet radiation from the hottest newborn stars in the nebula.
Carina Nebula
Star-Forming Region in the Carina Nebula: Detail 2
A close-up look at the peak of one of these "pillars of creation" reveals unequivocal evidence that stars are being born inside the columns. A pencil-like streamer of gas shoots out in both directions from the pillar and plows into surrounding gas like a fire hose hitting a wall of sand. The...
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula Details: Great Clouds
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.
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula Details: The Caterpillar
A Bok globule nicknamed the "caterpillar" appears at the right. Its glowing edge indicates that it is being photoionized by the hottest stars in the cluster. It has been hypothesized that stars may form inside such dusty cocoons. The top of the Keyhole Nebula, the most prominent feature...
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula Details: Pillar
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...
Carina Nebula
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a...
Carina Nebula
Mosaic of Carina Nebula Region
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Carina Nebula, NGC 3372.
Carina Nebula
Stellar Winds and Radiation From Eruptive Star Eta Carinae Sculpt Gas and Dust
A small portion of the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of swirling dust and gas near one of the most massive and eruptive stars in our galaxy is seen in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. This close-up view shows only a three light-year-wide portion of the entire Carina Nebula, which has...
Carina Nebula
Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372)
Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the "Keyhole Nebula," obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a montage assembled from four different April 1999 telescope pointings with Hubble's...
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae
This is a unique three-dimensional image of the star Eta Carinae, with its twin lobes and equatorial disk of expanding dust and gas. The picture, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, was assembled from two images of Eta Carinae take 17 months apart (April 1994, September 1995). The motion of...
Furious Expansion of Eta Carinae Debris
Eta Carinae
The furious expansion of a huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope comparison image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. To create the picture, astronomers aligned and subtracted two images of Eta Carinae taken 17 months apart (April 1994,...
The Doomed Star Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae
A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Using a combination of image processing techniques (dithering, subsampling and deconvolution), astronomers created one of the highest resolution...
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae: A Star On the Brink of Destruction
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). The Camera was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope during the STS-61 Hubble Servicing Mission. The WFPC-2 optically corrects for...
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae
A Hubble Space Telescope observation of the star Eta Carinae, made with the Wide Field/ Planetary Camera (WF/PC). An eruptive variable star, Eta Carinae has expelyled a large amount of gas into the surrounding interstellar medium. The HST resolves individual clumps as small as only about ten...
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae
A Hubble Space Telescope observation of the star Eta Carinae, made with the Wide Field/ Planetary Camera (WF/PC). An eruptive variable star, Eta Carinae has expelyled a large amount of gas into the surrounding interstellar medium. The HST resolves individual clumps as small as only about ten...
Eta Carinae
The Eta Carinae nebula, NGC 3372
The Eta Carinae nebula, NGC3372, also known as the Keyhole Nebula, as seen by the Curtis Schmidt telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in 1975. We also have an interesting narrow-band emission line image of this nebula. This gaseous bright nebula surrounds the peculiar...
Eta Carinae
The Eta Carinae nebula, NGC 3372
The Eta Carinae nebula, NGC3372, as seen from CTIO.
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula western wall (with adaptive optics)
A 50-trillion-km (33-trillion-mile, or 5 light-year) long section of the western wall in the Carina Nebula, as observed with adaptive optics on the Gemini South telescope. This mountainous section of the nebula reveals a number of unusual structures including a long series of parallel ridges...
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula (NGC 3372)
This image shows a giant star-forming region in the southern sky known as the Carina Nebula (NGC3372), combining the light from 3 different filters tracing emission from oxygen (blue), hydrogen (green), and sulfur (red). The color is also representative of the temperature in the ionized gas:...
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula Western Wall (without adaptive optics)
A 50-trillion-km (33-trillion-mile, or 5 light-year) long section of the western wall in the Carina Nebula, observed without adaptive optics.
Carina Nebula
The Tortured Clouds of Eta Carinae
Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, as can be seen in this new view of the Carina nebula from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope.
Eta Carinae
Cosmic Fireworks in Ultraviolet
Telescopes, including Hubble, have monitored the Eta Carinae star system for more than two decades. It has been prone to violent outbursts, including an episode in the 1840s during which ejected material formed the bipolar bubbles seen here. Now, using Hubbles Wide Field Camera 3 to probe the...
Eta Carinae
3D Image of Eta Carinae
This is a unique three-dimensional image of the star Eta Carinae, with its twin lobes and equatorial disk of expanding dust and gas. To see the 3D structure the image must be viewed through colour 3D glasses with the left eye looking through a red filtered lens, and right eye looking through a...
AG Carinae
Wide-Field View of AG Carinae
Pictured here is the region of the sky around the star AG Carinae, which is positioned in the centre of the image. The giant star is featured in the latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image, and is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self destruction. AG Carinae is...
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae Homunculus Nebula
Eta Carinae as imaged by the Gemini South telescope in Chile with the Near Infrared Coronagraphic Imager (NICI) using adaptive optics to reduce blurring by turbulence in the Earths atmosphere. In this image the bipolar lobes of the Homunculus Nebula are visible with the never-before imaged...
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula
This false-color image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the "South Pillar" region of the star-forming region called the Carina Nebula. Like cracking open a watermelon and finding its seeds, the infrared telescope "busted open" this murky cloud to reveal star embryos tucked inside...
Carina Nebula
New View of the Great Nebula in Carina
Compared to our own Sun, it is about 100 times as massive and a million times as bright. This famed variable hypergiant star is surrounded by the Carina Nebula.
Carina Nebula
Star birth in the extreme
Hubble's view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding...
Carina Nebula
Light and shadow in the Carina Nebula
Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the 'Keyhole Nebula, ' obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a montage assembled from four different April 1999 telescope pointings with Hubble's...
Carina Nebula
Hubble captures view of Mystic Mountain
This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years...
Carina Nebula
WFC3 visible image of the Carina Nebula
Composed of gas and dust, the pictured pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. Taken in visible light, the image shows the tip of the three-light-year-long pillar, bathed in the glow of...
Tr16-244
Wide-field image showing the region of WR 25 and Tr16-244
WR 25 and Tr16-244, at the bottom of the image, are located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. At the top of the...
Tr16-244
Mammoth stars seen by Hubble
The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. WR 25...
Eta Carinae
Preview of a forthcoming supernova
At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it became brighter and brighter, until, by April 1843, it was the second brightest star in the sky, outshone only by Sirius (which is almost a thousand times...
Carina Nebula
Hubble photographs turbulent neighborhood near eruptive star
A small portion of the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of swirling dust and gas near one of the most massive and eruptive stars in our galaxy is seen in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. This close-up view shows only a three light-year-wide portion of the entire Carina Nebula, which has...
Trumpler 14
Dazzling diamonds of Trumpler 14
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the star cluster Trumpler 14. One of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright stars in the Milky Way, this cluster houses some of the most luminous stars in our entire galaxy. The prominent dark patch, close to the centre of the...
Carina Nebula
WFC3 infrared image of Carina Nebula
Composed of gas and dust, the pictured pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. Taken in infrared light, the image shows the dense column and the surrounding greenish-coloured gas all but...
Carina Nebula
Hubble image of NGC 3324
Located in the Southern Hemisphere, NGC 3324 is at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), home of the Keyhole Nebula and the active, outbursting star Eta Carinae. The entire Carina Nebula complex is located at a distance of roughly 7,200 light-years, and lies in the constellation...
Eta Carinae
The expansion of Eta Carinae debris
The massive star Eta Carinae (almost hidden in the center) underwent a giant explosion some 150 years ago. The outburst spread the material that is visible today in this very sharp Hubble image. Even though Eta Carinae is more than 8,000 light-years away, structures only 15 thousand million...
Carina Nebula
Wide view of Mystic Mountain
This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photograph, which is stranger than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years high,...
Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae
The furious expansion of a huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope comparison image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Even though Eta Carinae is more than 8,000 light-years away, structures only 15 billion km across (about the diameter...
Carina Nebula
Return to the Carina Nebula
Looking like an elegant abstract art piece painted by talented hands, this picture is actually a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a small section of the Carina Nebula. Part of this huge nebula was documented in the well-known Mystic Mountain picture (heic1007a) and this picture takes an...
Carina Nebula
Hubbles wide view of Mystic Mountain in the infrared
This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared image of a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby stars in the tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern...
