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Eta Carinae Nebula and surrounding (HOO version), Massimo Di Fusco
Eta Carinae Nebula and surrounding (HOO version), Massimo Di Fusco

Eta Carinae Nebula and surrounding (HOO version)

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Eta Carinae Nebula and surrounding (HOO version), Massimo Di Fusco
Eta Carinae Nebula and surrounding (HOO version), Massimo Di Fusco

Eta Carinae Nebula and surrounding (HOO version)

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The Carina Nebula or Eta Carinae Nebula (catalogued as NGC 3372 and 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 8500 light-years 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. It was discovered by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1752 from the Cape of Good Hope.
The Carina Nebula was 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. A detailed image was made of an early star-forming region of NGC 3324 known as the Cosmic Cliffs.

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