CTIO Image of Carina Nebula

Hubble Captures View of 'Mystic Mountain'

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the...

Comparison Views of 'Mystic Mountain'

These two images of a three-light-year-high pillar of star birth demonstrate how observations taken in visible and infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal dramatically different and complementary views of an object. The pair of images demonstrate how Hubble's new...

Visible View of Pillar and Jets HH 901/902

Infrared View of Pillar and Jets HH 901/902

Wide View of 'Mystic Mountain'

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope photograph, which is stranger than fiction, captures the chaotic...

HH 901/902 Details

This is a series of close-up views of the complex gas structures in a small portion of the Carina Nebula. The nebula is a cold cloud of predominantly hydrogen gas. It is laced with dust, which makes the cloud opaque. The cloud is being eroded by a gusher of ultraviolet light...

Hubble Captures Spectacular "Landscape" in the Carina Nebula

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar gas and dust rising from a tempestuous stellar nursery located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator...

Hubble's Wide View of 'Mystic Mountain' in Infrared

This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared-light image of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby stars in the tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the...

Compass and Scale Image for UVIS/IR/Details

Ground Image and Constellation Region Around Carina Nebula

This is an Akira Fujii constellation image of the Carina constellation with Digitized Sky Survey and David Malin image overlays. This image was used in a zoom animation highlighting the "Jet in Carina" Hubble release image.

DSS Image of the Carina Nebula

This is a Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) image of the Carina nebula with DSS crop and David Malin image overlays. This image was used in a zoom animation highlighting the "Jet in Carina" Hubble release image.

Ground Image of the Carina Nebula

This is a UK Schmidt image of Carina Nebula. This image was used in a zoom animation highlighting the "Jet in Carina" Hubble release image. D. Malin, Copyright (c) 2000-2002

Hubble's Commemorative 20th Anniversary Poster

Hubble: Two Decades of Discovery (1990-2010)

Top astronomers who have worked on the Hubble Space Telescope over the past 20 years talk about their major discoveries that were made possible only with a spaceborne observatory. The 12-minute look at Hubble's top findings includes: galaxy evolution, dark matter, the age of the...

3-D Trip into the Carina Nebula

This is a three-dimensional trip into a giant "mountain" of cool hydrogen and dust in the Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region in our Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula is too far away for Hubble Space Telescope to see in true three dimensions. But this visualization creates...

Hubble 20th Anniversary Carina Nebula – Zoom

This is a zoom into the Carina Nebula, where thousands of stars are born from primeval gas and dust. The zoom sequence centers on a giant tower of cool hydrogen. Stars are forming inside this incubator and fire off jets of material.

Hubble 20th Anniversary Carina Nebula – Pan

This is a pan across the complex gas structures in a small portion of the Carina Nebula. The nebula is a cold cloud of predominantly hydrogen gas. It is laced with dust, which makes the cloud opaque. The cloud is being eroded by a gusher of ultraviolet light from young stars in...