Star birth
33. in the extreme
Hubble’s view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula
is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this
inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from
which the stars were born. The immense nebula is an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the southern