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.

                                 2023 May 1
      [2]The featured image shows the northern part of the Great Carina
    Nebula featuring the Gabriela Mistral Nebula as well as other nebulae
       and star clusters. Please see the explanation for more detailed
                                information.

                             Carina Nebula North
                 Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Carlos Taylor

   Explanation: The [4]Great Carina Nebula is home to strange stars and
   iconic nebulas. Named for its [5]home constellation, the huge
   star-forming region is larger and brighter than the [6]Great Orion
   Nebula but less well known because it is so far south -- and because so
   [7]much of humanity lives so far north. The [8]featured image shows in
   great detail the northernmost part of the [9]Carina Nebula. On the
   bottom left is the [10]Gabriela Mistral [11]Nebula consisting of an
   [12]emission nebula of glowing gas (IC 2599) surrounding the small open
   cluster of stars ([13]NGC 3324). Above the image center is the larger
   star cluster [14]NGC 3293, while to its right is the emission nebula
   Loden 153. The [15]most famous occupant of the [16]Carina Nebula,
   however, is not shown. [17]Off the image to the lower right is the
   bright, erratic, and doomed star known as [18]Eta Carinae -- a star
   once [19]one of the brightest stars in the sky and now predicted to
   explode in a [20]supernova sometime in the next few million years.

                   Tomorrow's picture: unusually flat mars
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    Authors & editors: [32]Robert Nemiroff ([33]MTU) & [34]Jerry Bonnell
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   4. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190507.html
   5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_(constellation)
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171129.html
   7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2016/03/histpop.png
   8. https://www.astrobin.com/aweslh/
   9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090524.html
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral
  11. https://telescope.live/gallery/168
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_nebula
  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3324
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3293
  15. https://i.pinimg.com/474x/e9/1d/9c/e91d9c4bd7c0ae81975ac7d7b9695742.jpg
  16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carina_Nebula
  17. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carina_Nebula_by_Harel_Boren_(151851961,_modified).jpg
  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae
  19. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AAS...23134811G/abstract
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