¿ 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. 2021 February 8 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. WR32 and Interstellar Clouds in Carina Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Ariel Cappelletti Explanation: Stars can be like artists. With interstellar gas as a canvas, a massive and tumultuous [4]Wolf-Rayet star has created the picturesque ruffled half-circular filaments called WR32, on the image left. Additionally, the winds and radiation from a small cluster of stars, [5]NGC 3324, have sculpted a 35 [6]light year cavity on the upper right, with its right side appearing as a [7]recognizable face in profile. This region's popular name is the [8]Gabriela Mistral Nebula for the famous [9]Chilean poet. Together, these interstellar [10]clouds lie about 8,000 light-years away in the [11]Great Carina Nebula, a complex stellar neighborhood harboring numerous clouds of gas and dust rich with [12]imagination [13]inspiring [14]shapes. The [15]featured telescopic view captures these nebulae's characteristic emission from ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen [16]atoms mapped to the red, green, and blue hues of the popular [17]Hubble Palette. New: [18]APOD now available in Bulgarian from Bulgaria Tomorrow's picture: flashes of pulsar __________________________________________________________________ [19]< | [20]Archive | [21]Submissions | [22]Index | [23]Search | [24]Calendar | [25]RSS | [26]Education | [27]About APOD | [28]Discuss | [29]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [30]Robert Nemiroff ([31]MTU) & [32]Jerry Bonnell ([33]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [34]Specific rights apply. [35]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [36]ASD at [37]NASA / [38]GSFC & [39]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2102/WR23Friends_cappelletti_4438.jpg 3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/110969348@N03/ 4. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200308.html 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3324 6. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/26/what-is-a-light-year/ 7. https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ninja-cats-2-2__605.jpg 8. https://telescope.live/gallery/168 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral 10. https://youtu.be/YDNiYGuzZPM 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190507.html 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191002.html 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170702.html 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190623.html 15. https://www.flickr.com/photos/110969348@N03/50678536108/ 16. https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/atom.html 17. https://astrobackyard.com/narrowband-imaging/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Hubble%20Palette,of%20light%20using%20various%20filters 18. https://mediabricks.bg/apod-bulgaria/ 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210207.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 23. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 28. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210208 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210209.html 30. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 31. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 32. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 33. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 35. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 36. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/ 38. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 39. http://www.mtu.edu/