Carina Nebula Wall Art Space ionized hydrogen

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The deformed foreground spiral galaxy laced with dust lanes NGC 1532 is so close to its companion — the background galaxy with a bright core just above the centre of NGC 1532 — that it gets distorted: one of its spiral arms is warped and plumes of dust and gas are visible above its disc

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Carina Nebula Wall Art Space ionized hydrogenThis broad image of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK I camera on ESOs Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged. Credit: ESO T. Preibisch