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Space Pictures This Week: Pink Nebula, Moon Map, More

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« on: November 19, 2011, 07:19:36 pm »



Cool Clouds of Carina

Image courtesy T. Preibisch et al, ESO/APEX and N. Smith, UMN/NOAO/AURA/NSF

Cold, dusty clouds swirl in the Carina Nebula, as captured in a picture released November 16 by the European Space Observatory-operated APEX telescope in the Chilean desert. APEX captures normally invisible submillimeter-wavelength light.

The submillimeter images, seen in orange, are combined with visible-light pictures from the Curtis Schmidt telescope at Chile's Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory.

"The result is a dramatic, wide-field picture that provides a spectacular view of Carina's star-formation sites," according to an ESO statement.

The nebula's total mass of gas and dust clouds is equal to that of about 140,000 suns.

Published November 18, 2011
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