NEBULA BIRTH

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth - and death - is taking place.

Hubble view of the nebula shows star birth in a total new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and ultraviolet radiation from the gigantic stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from which the stars were born.
NEBULA
NASA