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A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula
This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pillar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy, roughly 7500 light-years away. It is formed by interstellar gas and dust, and shaped by powerful stellar winds and radiation form neighboring stars like the nearby Eta Carinae stellar system which is more luminous than 5 million suns. The star…
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- APOD · ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter; Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç
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- James Webb Space Telescope
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- ap260917
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- Credit as published
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- APOD release page
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- Original file
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