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English: This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared-light image of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby stars in the tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image marks the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth. The image reveals a plethora of stars behind the gaseous veil of the nebula's wall of hydrogen, laced with dust. The foreground pillar becomes semi-transparent because infrared light from background stars penetrates through much of the dust. A few stars inside the pillar also become visible. The false colors are assigned to three different infrared wavelength ranges.
Date 9 March 2010, 06:10:21
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Author NASA Goddard Photo and Video

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  • NASA image release April 23, 2010This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared-light image of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby stars in the tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image marks the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth.The image reveals a plethora of stars behind the gaseous veil of the nebula's wall of hydrogen, laced with dust. The foreground pillar becomes semi-transparent because infrared light from background stars penetrates through much of the dust. A few stars inside the pillar also become visible. The false colors are assigned to three different infrared wavelength ranges.Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar in February and March 2010.Object Names: HH 901, HH 902Image Type: AstronomicalCredit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)To read learn more about this image go to: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hubble20th-img.html http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html" rel="nofollow">NASA Goddard Space Flight Centreis home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
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File change date and time 14:53, 12 April 2010
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Date and time of digitizing 06:10, 9 March 2010
Date metadata was last modified 10:53, 12 April 2010
Keywords
  • Hubble
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • NASA
  • Hubble 20 Years
  • hubble 20th anniversary
  • Goddard Space Flight Centre
  • space
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