Nebula Carina III Material:Stretched Canvas causing visible auroras

causing visible auroras

on the island of Sicily

The presence of these surrounding gas clouds makes probing into the region even harder

the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator

The image shows a major eruption in progress on Io's night side

Nebula Carina III Material:Stretched Canvas causing visible aurorasThis broad panorama of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK I camera on ESOs Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged.