Carina Nebula Wall Art phone case We are looking down on

We are looking down on a torus (doughnut shape) of ejected material

was obtained by Spitzer's infrared array camera

58-metre New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory

Hubble first looked at this planetary nebula in 1998

top-down view of the structure of its disk

Carina Nebula Wall Art phone case We are looking down onThis 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