With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing atomic
gas, this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of the largest star
forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, the Great Carina Nebula. The
telescopic close-up frames a field of view about 80 light-years across, a
little south and east of Eta Carinae, the nebula's most energetic and enigmatic
star. Captured under suburban skies improved during national restrictions, a
composite of narrowband image data was used to create the final image. In it, characteristic
emission from the nebula's ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms is mapped
to red, green, and blue hues, a color palette also popular in Hubble Space
Telescope images. The celestial landscape of bright ridges of emission bordered
by cool, obscuring dust lies about 7,500 light-years away toward the southern
constellation Carina. Enjoy.
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