Posts Tagged ‘Carina’
A twisting and turning sea
Credit: NASA/ESA and Hubble
Dark dust twists and turns in this image of the Carina Nebula from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Glowy, swirly jungle
Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
If you set out to find a starry version of “Where the Wild Things Are,” you’d find it in the Carina Nebula. All week, we’ve been exploring the way the swirls in the star cloud look like animals; a swift, caterpillar and an eagle, and sea monsters.
Spitting Dragon
Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A dragon spits star dust in the Carina Nebula. This dragon is part of a huge glowing and swirling cloud of gas and dust. In this image we see star birth as well as star death within the Great Nebula in Carina, also known as NGC 3372.
The Little Man
J. Hester/Arizona state University NASA
Explore the image of Eta Carinae and you’ll see the little man, or homunculus, astronomers saw in their telescopes 150 years ago. Eta Carinae is a star on the brink of destruction. In 1841, the blue hypergiant-star suddenly became the second brightest star in the night sky. During the next 20 years, Eta Carinae, or Eta Car, ejected more mass than our Sun. Then the star faded. When astronomers searched out the star, they found the Homunculus Nebula. In Latin, homunculus means “little man.” Share with us the shapes and stories you see in this nebula.
Dragon Jewels
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
A dragon swoops in to protect its jewels in this image of NGC 3603. Thousands of sparkling new stars form one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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