¿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 May 25 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed Image Credit: [3]Hubble, [4]NASA, [5]ESA; Processing & [6]License: [7]Judy Schmidt Explanation: Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The huge monster, actually an inanimate series of pillars of gas and dust, measures [8]light years in length. The in-head star is not itself visible through the [9]opaque [10]interstellar dust but is bursting out partly by ejecting opposing beams of energetic particles called [11]Herbig-Haro jets. Located about 7,500 light years away in the [12]Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic Mountain, the appearance of these pillars is dominated by dark dust even though they are composed mostly of clear [13]hydrogen gas. The [14]featured image was taken with the [15]Hubble Space Telescope. All over these pillars, the [16]energetic light and [17]winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Within a few million years, the head of this giant, as well as most of its body, will have been [18]completely evaporated by internal and surrounding stars. 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