APOD: 2020 February 15 - Carina Nebula Close Up

This is a gorgeous star system Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and a good afternoon to you my friend!!! Looking at the larger image, it looks to me like a huge heart with many lobes and vessels indicative of the human heart... No so, but that was my initial reaction... I believe that this star system or Nebula has come up on the APOD before or perhaps I saw it in their monthly Astronomy magazine.

As I usually do, Bill, I found a beautiful short technical video covering the Carina Nebula and I am posting it as an adjunct to this phenomenal Image you have posted... I believe that your Followers will enjoy the detail covered... https://youtu.be/KMFpbmceUXk





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Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Carina Nebula Close Up." and mentioning our friend in the land down under Cynthia Croft
Image: Carina Nebula Close Up - Image Credit - NASA, ESA, Hubble, ESO, Amateur Data; Processing & Copyright - Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari
"Explanation: A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, spans over 300 light-years, one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is easily visible to the unaided eye, though at a distance of 7,500 light-years it is some 5 times farther away. This gorgeous telescopic close-up reveals remarkable details of the region's central glowing filaments of interstellar gas and obscuring cosmic dust clouds in a field of view nearly 20 light-years across. The Carina Nebula is home to young, extremely massive stars, including the still enigmatic and violently variable Eta Carinae, a star system with well over 100 times the mass of the Sun. In the processed composite of space and ground-based image data a dusty, two-lobed Homunculus Nebula appears to surround Eta Carinae itself just below and left of center. While Eta Carinae is likely on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that the Great Carina Nebula has been a veritable supernova factory. "
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