Mystic Mountain VI (Carina) Size:36" x 24" (91 cm x 61 cm) compressing hydrogen gas and creating

compressing hydrogen gas and creating clusters of new stars

The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5

and city lights at a maximum resolution of 1 kilometer per pixel

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow

Blue and red supergiant stars

Mystic Mountain VI (Carina) Size:36" x 24" (91 cm x 61 cm) compressing hydrogen gas and creatingAt the top of this interstellar mountain is a star that is slowly breaking it down. The huge mountain, a series of pillars of gas and dust, measures light years in length. The top star is not itself visible through the opaque interstellar dust but is bursting out partly by ejecting opposing 1 2 light year wide beams of energetic particles called Herbig Haro jets. Located about 7,500 light years away in the Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic