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Annotated image of the Carina Nebula, NGC 3372, detailing whereabouts of small structures within. Collections: Carina Nebula Complex _ Carina Nebula Structures
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Parts of the Carina Nebula Complex: to the bottom left is Gum 31 (IC 2599), bubble-shaped region known as Gabriela Mistral (a Chilean poet) nebula; in the middle, is NGC 3293, the gem cluster of stars; towards the top is Loden153 Nebula. Collections: Carina Nebula Complex _ Southern Celestial Hemisphere
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Carina Nebula NGC 3372, "chasing Running Chicken Nebula". Collections: Carina Nebula Artistic
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Carina Nebula NGC 3372, "chasing Gabriela Mistral Nebula". Collections: Carina Nebula Artistic
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Part of Carina Nebula NGC 3372, "artistic impression". Collections: Carina Nebula Complex _ Carina Nebula Artistic
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Keyhole Nebula within Carina Nebula; image captured with Celestron EdgeHD 9.25" and grossly enlarged with gigapixel and Adobe Photoshop. Collections: Carina Nebula Structures
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This image shows the whole Eta Carinae complex, (top facing north, left facing east) centred on η (Eta) Carinae, a binary star system at least 120 times the mass of the Sun and five million times as luminous as the Sun, which, with other star clusters, shapes and illuminates the Nebula. Collections: Carina Nebula Complex _ Southern Celestial Hemisphere
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"Finger of God" Nebula, a small, dark cloud of dense dust and gas two light-years in length; known as a Bok globule, which is an isolated, dark nebula compressed with cosmic dust where new star formation can occur; image captured with Celestron EdgeHD 9.25" and grossly enlarged with gigapixel and Adobe Photoshop. Collections: Carina Nebula Structures
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Caterpillar Nebula, a prominent, dense Bok globule within Carina Nebula; image captured with Celestron EdgeHD 9.25" and grossly enlarged with gigapixel and Adobe Photoshop. Collections: Carina Nebula Structures
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This image homes in on η Carinae to demonstrate surrounding it, although difficult to observe in this rather poor image, is the oval-shaped Homunculus Nebula, believed to have been ejected in an enormous outburst that was observed in1841 which briefly made η (Eta) Carinae the second-brightest star(s) in the sky (remember, this happened some 7,500 years before 1841, the light-year distance of the Carina Nebula); also, pointing out from the bottom (south) of the Keyhole Nebula, what is called the Defiant Finger, a small Bok globule in the Keyhole Nebula - Bok globules are small, isolated, and extremely dense cold clouds of interstellar gas and dust that act as cocoons for stellar birth, often containing forming stars; image captured with RedCat 71. Collections: Carina Nebula Complex
