Carina Nebula

giant star-forming region · NGC 3372

7,500 light-years from Earth

Four times bigger than the Orion Nebula and home to some of the most massive stars known, including Eta Carinae. Its dust pillars, like Mystic Mountain, are being carved by their light.

• ~7,500 light-years · about 300 light-years across
• its clusters hold dozens of stars over 50 times the Sun's mass

kind

nebula

catalogue

NGC 3372