Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                 2020 May 22
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                               South of Carina
            Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Ignacio Diaz Bobillo

   Explanation: With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing
   atomic gas, this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of the
   [5]largest star forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, the Great
   Carina Nebula. [6]The telescopic close-up frames a field of view about
   80 light-years across, a little south and east of Eta Carinae, the
   nebula's most energetic and enigmatic star. Captured under suburban
   skies improved during national restrictions, a composite of narrowband
   image data was used to create the final image. In it, characteristic
   emission from the nebula's ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms
   is mapped to [7]red, green, and blue hues, a color palette also popular
   in Hubble Space Telescope images. [8]The celestial landscape of bright
   ridges of emission bordered by cool, obscuring dust lies about 7,500
   light-years away toward the southern constellation Carina.

                      Tomorrow's picture: ghostly glow
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