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The Core of the Great Carina Nebula, Rick Stevenson

The Core of the Great Carina Nebula

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The Core of the Great Carina Nebula, Rick Stevenson

The Core of the Great Carina Nebula

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The Great Carina Nebula is one of the brightest emission nebulae in the sky - considerably larger and brighter than the Orion Nebula. It contains the highly luminous hypergiant star, Eta Carinae, the Homunculus Nebula (surrounding Eta and blown out in this image) and the Keyhole Nebula (approximately in the centre of the FOV). Eta Carinae is actually a stellar system of unpredictable variability consisting of at least two stars.

This is a narrowband image in a tweaked version of the Hubble Palette.

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The Core of the Great Carina Nebula, Rick Stevenson