![]() “Apart from the overview from the image the science is mostly done using catalogs of all the objects which we extract from the image in each of the individual colors (filters) used in the observations.“ “We want to better understand how stars and planets form, and the environment they form in which is why studying a relatively nearby region of active star formation is so useful,“ Jim Emerson at School of Physics & Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, explains. ![]() ![]() There’s a battle raging between stars and dust in the Carina Nebula, and the newly formed stars are winning by producing high-energy radiation and stellar winds which evaporate and disperse the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed.ĭespite the big distance between Earth and the Carina Nebula, the findings in those photos are of invaluable significance for astronomers. By contrast, other regions of the nebula contain dark pillars of dust cloaking newborn stars. The massive stars in the interior of this cosmic bubble emit intense radiation that causes the surrounding gas to glow. ![]() The constellation of Carina is about 7,500 light-years away and the home of a nebula within which stars form and perish side-by-side. By observing in infrared light, VISTA has peered through the hot gas and dark dust enshrouding the nebula to show us myriad stars, both newborn and in their death throes. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky and has now been beautifully imaged by ESO’s ( European Southern Observatory) VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
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