The Carina Nebula & Gabriela Mistral Nebula. (Prabhakaran)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Carina (Car) · Contains: Carina Nebula · Foramen · IC 2599 · NGC 3324 · NGC 3372 · eta Car · eta Car Nebula · t02 Car · w Car

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The Carina Nebula & Gabriela Mistral Nebula.

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The Carina Nebula & Gabriela Mistral Nebula.

The Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, it is one of our galaxy's largest star-forming regions and is located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm. The nebula spans over 300 light-years and approximately 8,500 light-years from earth.
The nebula is one of the largest diffuse nebulae in our skies. Although it is brighter and four times as large as the famous Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is much less well known due to its location in the southern sky, because of the same reason it is very difficult to capture from the Northern hemisphere, this image was capture when it was just 5 degrees above the horizon from 25° North.
The Carina Nebula has a lot of open star clusters, numerous O-type stars, and several Wolf–Rayet stars. It is also home to WR 25, currently, the most luminous star known in our Milky Way galaxy, besides WR 25, Eta Carinae is a highly luminous hypergiant star that can be studied in great detail, because of its location and size. The star can be found at the center of this image. This star will soon explode as a supernova or hypernova in the near future. Within the large bright nebula is a much smaller feature, immediately surrounding Eta Carinae itself, known as the Homunculus Nebula It is believed to have been ejected in an enormous outburst in 1841 which briefly made Eta Carinae the second-brightest star in the sky.
NGC 3324 is an open cluster located on the top right of this image, It is closely associated with the emission nebula IC 2599, also known as Gum 31. The two are often confused as a single object and together have been nicknamed the "Gabriela Mistral Nebula" due to its resemblance to the Chilean poet.

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RA (center)	10h44m05s.64
RA (top/left)	10h50m23s.22
RA (top/right)	10h36m24s.26
RA (bottom/right)	10h37m17s.65
RA (bottom/left)	10h52m20s.56

Dec (center)	-59°34′11″.0
Dec (top/left)	-58°15′02″.3
Dec (top/right)	-58°23′06″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	-60°52′46″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	-60°43′56″.8

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