Carina Nebula
sduford on Apr 24 2007 at 2:17 pm | Filed under: Photography, Science
To celebrate the Hubble Telescope’s 17th anniversary, NASA just released an extraordinary panorama of 50 pictures stitched together. This is the Carina Nebula, an area of extreme star births and deaths. You can read about it here.
Click on the image above to view an 800×387 pixel version. Click here to view a 4000×1937 pixel, 20 MB version. Or here for the 200MB version. If you really want to see detail, I will spare you the 500MB version which will blow up your computer, but you can view it safely and pan & scan to your heart’s content here.
