Carina Nebula HH 901,HH 902 Mystic Mountain Wall Art Phone case The sky field measures 400

The sky field measures 400 x 400 square arcsec

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

In the heart of the nebula

The blue-green glow in the centre of the Helix comes from oxygen atoms shining under effects of the intense ultraviolet radiation of the 120 000 degree Celsius central star and the hot gas

Carina Nebula HH 901,HH 902 Mystic Mountain Wall Art Phone case The sky field measures 400This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. The NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope photograph, which is stranger than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light years high, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire