Carina Nebula Wall Art including Frame phone case The bright star on the

The bright star on the right with the greenish haze is Pi Scorpii

220 km away

the total amount of gas is billions of times the mass of the Sun — a rich reservoir of material for future generations of stars

000 light years above and below the plane of the galaxy

in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow)

Carina Nebula Wall Art including Frame phone case The bright star on theThis broad image of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK I camera on ESOs Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged. Credit: ESO T. Preibisch