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The Mystic Mountain is vast area located roughly, 7,700 light years away from Earth in the Carina Nebula. The mountain is a stellar nursery, home to newly born stars, reaching a peak of around 3 light years (17,670,000,000 000 miles) in height. The stars surrounding and forming within the cloud, gives of huge amounts of heat and radiation, which ionizes the surrounding gases, causing them to glow.
The image above was captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Saturday 11 March 2017
Mystic Mountain
The Mystic Mountain is vast area located roughly, 7,700 light years away from Earth in the Carina Nebula. The mountain is a stellar nursery, home to newly born stars, reaching a peak of around 3 light years (17,670,000,000 000 miles) in height. The stars surrounding and forming within the cloud, gives of huge amounts of heat and radiation, which ionizes the surrounding gases, causing them to glow.
The image above was captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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