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On the left is a wall of yellow, orange, and green gas and dust, with a dark pink/red finger-like structure of gas. The background for the right half of the image is hazy pink dust, with a star cluster of a few dozen stars glowing on the right.

Trumpler 14

An approximately one-light-year-tall "pillar" of cold hydrogen towers above the wall of this molecular cloud in the Carina Nebula. The 2.5-million-year-old star cluster called Trumpler 14 appears at the right side of the image. A small nugget of cold molecular hydrogen, called a Bok globule, is silhouetted against the star cluster.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
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