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ESA: Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula

Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula
Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula. (PHOTO SUPPLIED)

ESA-(ENEWSPF)- Giant bubbles, towering pillars and cascading clouds of dust and gas fill the star-forming nursery of the Carina Nebula seen here in a stunning new view from Herschel to launch ESA Space Science’s image of the week feature.

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The Carina Nebula is some 7500 lightyears from Earth and hosts some of the most massive and luminous stars in our Galaxy, including double-star system eta Carinae, which…

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