COLLIDING GALAXIES FROM NASA

Hubble-Universe

    Hot, young, massive stars are tearing down the nursery that gave them birth in this new image from Hubble Space Telescope. The nursery, known as the Carina Nebula, is a vast cloud of gas and dust. It fragmented into smaller clumps, which gave birth to about a dozen giant stars, plus hundreds of smaller ones. The largest star, Eta Carinae, is at left. The newborn stars pump vast amounts of energy into the leftover nebula, which blows away much of its remaining gas. That shuts down the process of starbirth. The nebula is about 7,500 light-years away, in the southern constellation Carina, which represented the keel of the Argo, the boat that carried Jason and the Argonauts. (Source = www.stardate.org)

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