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    The Carina Nebula or Eta Carinae Nebula (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity...
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    Lacaille in 1751, which contains several nebulae. The Carina Nebula overall is an extended emission nebula approximately 8,000 light-years away and 300 light-years...
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    fields. Ant Nebula Barnard's Loop Boomerang Nebula Cat's Eye Nebula Crab Nebula Eagle Nebula Eskimo Nebula Carina Nebula Fox Fur Nebula Helix Nebula Horsehead...
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    Eta Carinae (redirect from Eta carina)
    Trumpler 16 open cluster within the much larger Carina Nebula. Although unrelated to the star and nebula, the weak Eta Carinids meteor shower has a radiant...
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    NGC 6523 in Sagittarius and the Orion Nebula M42. Further in the southern hemisphere is the bright Carina Nebula NGC 3372. Emission nebulae often have...
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  • The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. In its 17 years...
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    Sagittarius (RA 18h 5m) M8, the Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius (RA 18h 4m) NGC 3372, the Carina Nebula in Carina (RA 10h 45m) Galactic disc Churchwell,...
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    nebula is embedded within the much larger Carina Nebula, a large star-forming H II region. From the Latin homunculus meaning Little Man, the nebula consists...
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    Mystic Mountain (category Carina Nebula)
    Mystic Mountain is a photograph and a term for a region in the Carina Nebula imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new...
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  • Bochum 10 is an open cluster in Carina Nebula. N135 is an emission nebula in Large Magellanic Cloud. N70 is an emission nebula in Large Magellanic Cloud. DEM...
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    WR 22, WR 24 and Eta Carinae. All of these stars are located in the Carina nebula. Accurate measurement of stellar luminosities is difficult, even when...
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    NGC 3324 (category Carina (constellation))
    3324 is an open cluster in the southern constellation Carina, located northwest of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) at a distance of 9,100 ly (2,800 pc) from...
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  • (constellation), a constellation Carina Dwarf, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) "Carina" (Corrado Lojacono song), a 1958...
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    Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) released an image from the Carina Nebula. To commemorate Hubble's 25th anniversary in space on April 24, 2015...
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    released 12 July 2022 Cosmic Cliffs of Carina Nebula (NGC 3324) (NIRCam) Carina Nebula (NGC 3324) (MIRI) Southern Ring Nebula (NGC 3132; Left: NIRCam; Right:...
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    original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2010. "Return to the Carina Nebula". ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. ESA/Hubble. Retrieved July 4, 2011...
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  • Keyhole Glacier, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada Keyhole nebula, another name for the Carina Nebula A type of cockpit on a kayak or sea kayak The KH-11 KENNEN...
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    HD 93129 (category Carina Nebula)
    HD 93129 is a triple star system in the Carina Nebula, with all three components being hot O class stars amongst the most luminous stars in the Milky...
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    QZ Carinae (category Carina Nebula)
    constellation Carina. It is the brightest member of the loose open cluster Collinder 228 and one of the brightest stars in the Carina Nebula. The apparent...
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    (2003-04-01). "Numerous Proplyd Candidates in the Harsh Environment of the Carina Nebula". The Astrophysical Journal. 587 (2): L105–L108. Bibcode:2003ApJ...587L...
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    Cross including the first-magnitude stars Acrux and Mimosa, west of the Carina Nebula (one of five first-magnitude deep-sky objects), and with the first-magnitude...
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    nearby massive star. In the Carina Nebula, EUV fluxes are approximately 100 times higher than in Trapezium's Orion Nebula. Protoplanetary disks are present...
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    5 kpc and the current distance of VY CMa which is about 1.17 kpc as the nebula is sometimes found to have the same distance as VY CMa. "The New York Times"...
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    Carina OB1 is a giant OB association in the Carina Nebula, which is home to some of the most massive and luminous stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. It includes...
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    Trumpler 16 (category Carina Nebula)
    stars in the Milky Way galaxy. It is situated within the Carina Nebula complex in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm, located approximately 9,270 ly (2,842 pc)...
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  • Barnard's Merope Nebula Boomerang Nebula Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635 Bubble Nebula in Barnard's Galaxy California Nebula Carina Nebula Cave Nebula Corona Australis...
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    instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope Bok globules located within the NGC 281 nebula (IC 1590 cluster) Barnard 68, at a distance of only 410 light-years, is...
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    in a number of star-forming regions, notably the Orion Nebula, Messier 17, and the Carina Nebula. The hot gas is likely supplied by the strong stellar...
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    Trumpler 14 (category Carina Nebula)
    Carina Nebula, approximately 8,980 light-years (2,753 pc) from Earth. Together with the nearby Trumpler 16, they are the main clusters of the Carina OB1...
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  • in the Carina Nebula with the CTIO 4m and near Sagittarius A* with the VLA. Follow-up observations of a proplyd candidate in the Carina Nebula with Hubble...
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