Cosmic Ice Sculptures: Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 08:56 in Astronomy & Space

This image is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope observations, taken in 2005 and 2010, of the dark pillars of cool gas and dust in the Carina Nebula region. The immense nebula lies an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Three-dimensional movies of the imaged region are also available.

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