Carte Carina Nebula

This new Hubble photo is but a small portion of one the largest lacs star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. Reminiscent of Hubble's classic image of the Eagle Nebula dubbed the 'Pillars of Creation' this image is even more striking in appearance. Captured here are the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and the dust that is mit eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright. Le pillar est donc littéralement pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jet of gas that can be streaming from towering peaks like arrows sailing through the air.