Buy this Carina Nebula NGC 3372 space photo. High quality Hubble picture, slide, or Duratrans backlit transparency. NASA photograph H2007-16i. Wide variety of sizes. Click to see selection as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) - April 30, 2007 Star-Forming Region in the Carina Nebula: Detail 2. A close-up look at the peak of one of these "pillars of creation" reveals unequivocal evidence that stars are being born inside the columns. A pencil-like streamer of gas shoots out in both directions from the pillar and plows into surrounding gas like a fire hose hitting a wall of sand. The jet is being launched from a newly forming star hidden inside the column. A similar jet appears near the bottom of the image. These stellar jets are a common signature of the birth of a new star. April 24, 2007 Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
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