Carina Nebula Wall Art phone case We are looking down on

We are looking down on a torus (doughnut shape) of ejected material

58-metre New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory

At the centre lies the brilliant star VFTS 102 This view includes both visible-light and infrared images from the Wide Field Imager at the MPG/ESO 2

The data were captured before Spitzer ran out of its liquid coolant in 2009

Carina Nebula Wall Art phone case We are looking down onThis broad image of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK I camera on ESOs Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged. Credit: ESO T. Preibisch