🌫️ Nebula
Carina Nebula
A huge glowing cloud home to some of the biggest stars known.
- Distance
- 7,600 light-years away
- Size
- 230 light-years across
Did you know?
- This photo from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a region nicknamed the “Cosmic Cliffs”.
Photographed or visited by
James Webb Space Telescope
A golden mirror that sees the first galaxies in infrared.
The life of a starA step in a star’s life: born in a cloud
Compare Carina Nebula with the Milky WaySide by side, to scale, in the app
More NASA photos of Carina NebulaStraight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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All of deep space
The Sun
Our star, an ordinary one that keeps everything here alive.
Betelgeuse
A red supergiant in Orion that will one day explode.
Alpha Centauri
The closest star system to the Sun.
Eta Carinae
A pair of giant stars, one of them about 90 times heavier than the Sun.
Mira
A red giant star racing through space with a tail like a comet.
Zeta Ophiuchi
A runaway star, flung out when its partner exploded.