Friday, April 17, 2015

4.4 apod

In this picture toy an see the dust in the Carina nebula. The energetic light and winds evaporates and disperses dusty stellar nurseries. This one is located in the Carina nebula and is know as he mystic mountain. These are composed mostly from gas bust also clear hydrogen gas. Dust pillars such as these are actually much thinner than air and only appear as mountains due to relatively small amounts of opaque interstellar dust. This picture is about 7500 light years away. 
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