Carina Nebula Details - Great Clouds
by Marco Oliveira
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Title
Carina Nebula Details - Great Clouds
Artist
Marco Oliveira
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Photograph - Photography
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Carina Nebula Details - Great Clouds
Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Retouching: Marco Oliveira
These great clouds of cold hydrogen resemble summer afternoon thunderheads. They tower above the surface of a molecular cloud on the edge of the nebula. So-called "elephant trunk" pillars resist being heated and eaten away by blistering ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's brightest stars.
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February 16th, 2015
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