Carina Nebula HH 901,HH 902 Mystic Mountain Tapestry Size:80" x 68" This image of the region

This image of the region of sky around the Pencil Nebula shows a spectacular celestial landscape featuring the blue filaments of the Vela supernova remnant

Day: About 243 Earth days

lying about 1350 light-years from Earth

But because the rings are so bright – like freshly fallen snow – a competing theory is that they may have formed during the age of the dinosaurs

Carina Nebula HH 901,HH 902 Mystic Mountain Tapestry Size:80" x 68" This image of the regionThis craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. The NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope photograph, which is stranger than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light years high, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire