Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  Carina Nebula  ·  NGC 3372  ·  eta Car Nebula
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Carina in SHO, jprejean
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Carina in SHO

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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Carina in SHO

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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The Carina Nebula or Eta Carinae Nebula (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

The nebula is approximately 8,500 light-years (2,600 pc) from Earth. 

The nebula is one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies. Although it is four times as large as and even brighter than the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known due to its location in the southern sky.
selected as one of five cosmic objects observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, as part of the release of its first official science images. 

This on is SHO filter.

Processed with FITS subframes from Telescope Live using PixInsight and Photoshop.

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