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Photo reblogged from I. Me. Mine
NGC 3603 is an open cluster of stars situated in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way, around 20,000 light-years away from our solar system. It is surrounded by the most massive visible cloud of glowing gas and plasma known as a H II region in the Milky Way. HD 97950 is the central star of star cluster, the densest concentration of very massive stars known in the galaxy.
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Photo reblogged from I. Me. Mine
A piller of gas and dust within the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Carina. The 3-light-year-long pillar is seen bathed in the glow of light from hot, massive stars off the top of the image. Radiation and streams of charged particles from these stars are sculpting the pillar and causing new stars to form within it. The image is a composite of separate exposures made July 24 to 30, 2009. The color results from assigning different colors to each monochromatic image. | via:
