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Mystic Mountain

Cosmic nebula

The location of the feature can be seen in this wider view of the Carina Nebula.

Mystic Mountain is a photograph and a term for a region in the Carina Nebula imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new Wide Field Camera 3, though the region was also viewed by the previous generation instrument. The new view celebrated the telescope's 20th anniversary of being in space in 2010. Mystic Mountain contains multiple Herbig–Haro objects where nascent stars are firing off jets of gas which interact with surrounding clouds of gas and dust. This region is about 7500 ly away from Earth. The pillar measures around 3 ly. The name was influenced by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.

References

Achenbach, Joel. (16 April 2015). "Mystic Mountain: Is this the Hubble Space Telescope's greatest image?". The Washington Post.
(24 April 2007). "Interactive: The Carina Nebula in all its Glory...". The Hubble Heritage Project.
(22 April 2010). "Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery".
(2015). "Galactic Encounters: Our Majestic and Evolving Star-System, From the Big Bang to Time's End". Springer.

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