Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Carina (Car)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3293
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NGC 3293, Jochen Maes
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NGC 3293, Jochen Maes

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NGC 3293 is an open cluster in the Carina constellation, around 8400 light years from earth.

What we see here is a newly formed (astronomically speaking) star cluster which is still shaping its surroundings. The intense stellar wind from the stars in the center of the image is slowly pushing away the surrounding material, causing it to disperse and in some cases clump together and give birth to even more stars. In another few million years, the material will be spread out enough that it won't be visible anymore from earth.

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17x1200" HA
11x300" Red
11x300" Green
11x300" Blue

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NGC 3293, Jochen Maes