Carina Nebula HH 901,HH 902 Mystic Mountain Tapestry Size:80" x 68" The colours of the different

The colours of the different regions are well visible : the central areas contain older stars of reddish colour

including Ferdinand Magellan who lends his name to the SMC

bright stars

This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant

Saturn itself is made of ammonia ice and methane gas

Carina Nebula HH 901,HH 902 Mystic Mountain Tapestry Size:80" x 68" The colours of the differentThis craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. The NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope photograph, which is stranger than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light years high, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire