Tuesday, 17 December 2013

The Landscape of Carina Print

Here's a great poster featuring a beautiful image from deep space

after scouring the Zazzle market place for a while, I settled on this as my choice for today. By les_etoiles,
another talented creative from the Zazzle community!


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"NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar gas and dust rising from a tempestuous stellar nursery located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars and is teeming with new star-forming activity.

"Hot, young stars erode and sculpt the clouds into this fantasy landscape by sending out thick stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation. The low-density regions of the nebula are shredded while the denser parts resist erosion and remain as thick pillars. In the dark, cold interiors of these columns new stars continue to form."

(qtd. from HubbleSite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2010-13)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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