File:Carina Nebula Western Wall (labeled) (noirlab2025c).tiff
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[edit]DescriptionCarina Nebula Western Wall (labeled) (noirlab2025c).tiff |
English: A 50-trillion-km (33-trillion-mile, or 5 light-year) long section of the western wall in the Carina Nebula, as observed with adaptive optics on the Gemini South telescope. This mountainous section of the nebula reveals a number of unusual structures including a long series of parallel ridges that could be produced by a magnetic field, a remarkable almost perfectly smooth wave, and fragments that appear to be in the process of being sheared off the cloud by a strong wind. There is also evidence for a jet of material ejected from a newly-formed star. The exquisite detail seen in the image is in part due to a technology known as adaptive optics, which resulted in a ten-fold improvement in the resolution of the research team’s observations. |
Date | 5 October 2020 (upload date) |
Source | Carina Nebula Western Wall (labeled) |
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International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgment: . PI: Patrick Hartigan (Rice University).Image processing: Patrick Hartigan (Rice University), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin |
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