Sculpting the South Pillar
Eta Carinae, one of the most massive and unstable stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, has a profound effect on its environment.
Found in the South Pillar region of the Carina Nebula, these fantastic pillars of glowing dust and gas embedded with newborn stars were sculpted by the intense wind and radiation from Eta Carinae and other massive stars.
Glowing brightly in planet Earth's southern sky, the expansive Eta Carinae Nebula is a mere 10,000 light-years distant. Still, this remarkable cosmic vista is largely obscured by nebular dust and only revealed here in penetrating infrared light by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Eta Carinae itself is off the top left of this false-color image, with the bright-tipped dust pillars pointing suggestively toward the massive star's position.
Image Credit: NASA, SSC, JPL, Caltech, Nathan Smith (Univ. of Colorado), et al.
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地球から１万光年の彼方にある竜骨座星雲(Eta Carinae Nebula)は高密度の宇宙風を放射して、新たに誕生したスターたちの住処となる、輝くチリとガスでできた幻想的な砦を彫刻した・・・
Aoyagi YoSuKe
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