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Dust in Carina, Kevin Osborn
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Dust in Carina

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Dust in Carina

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This is a detailed view of a portion of the Carina Nebula, a very large and bright emission nebula approximately 120 arcminutes in angular size with an apparent magnitude of +1.0, well known and often imaged in the southern hemisphere.  Most images either cover the entire nebula, or focus on some of the more interesting bright areas, such as the Keyhole Nebula, the Mystic Mountain and less commonly the Homunculus Nebula surrounding the star η Carinae.  Instead with this image, I have tried to showcase some of the dust structure of the nebula.  The central part of this image covers the main northern dust lane of the nebula (north is down for this image).  As a happy coincidence, the Keyhole Nebula, the Mystic Mountain and η Carinae are included to the right of the dust lane.  This is a Hubble palette SHO image with RGB stars.

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Dust in Carina, Kevin Osborn

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