Carina Nebula
E59350
The Carina Nebula is a vast, active star-forming region in the Milky Way known for its towering gas and dust pillars and dramatic young stellar clusters.
Aliases (2)
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
H II region
→
emission nebula → giant molecular cloud complex → star-forming region → |
| ageRangeOfYoungStars | less than a few million years → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Carina Nebula
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surface form: "Great Carina Nebula"
NGC 3372 → |
| angularSize | about 2 degrees → |
| apparentMagnitude | about 1.0 → |
| bestSeenIn | austral autumn and winter → |
| catalog | New General Catalogue → |
| contains |
Collinder 228
→
Collinder 232 → Eta Carinae → Herbig–Haro objects → Carina Nebula →
surface form: "Keyhole Nebula"
Trumpler 14 → Trumpler 15 → Trumpler 16 → Wolf–Rayet stars → bipolar jets from young stars → dark globules → dense pillars of gas and dust → ionization fronts → massive O-type stars → photodissociation regions → protoplanetary disks → young massive star clusters → |
| discoveryStatus | visible to the naked eye and known since pre-telescopic times → |
| distanceFromEarth |
approximately 2,300 parsecs
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approximately 7,500 light-years → |
| dominantExcitationSource | ultraviolet radiation from massive stars → |
| hasFeature |
bright emission filaments
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cavities blown by massive stars → expanding bubbles of ionized gas → regions of triggered star formation → towering pillars sculpted by stellar winds → |
| locatedIn |
Carina constellation
→
Milky Way → |
| mass | several hundred thousand solar masses of gas and dust → |
| observedBy |
Chandra X-ray Observatory
→
Hubble Space Telescope → James Webb Space Telescope → Spitzer Space Telescope → |
| observedIn |
X-ray wavelengths
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infrared wavelengths → optical wavelengths → |
| partOf |
Sagittarius Arm
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surface form: "Carina–Sagittarius Arm"
|
| roleInAstrophysics |
laboratory for feedback from massive stars
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laboratory for massive star formation → laboratory for triggered star formation → |
| spectralType | strong H-alpha emission → |
| starFormationActivity | very high → |
| visibleFrom | Southern Hemisphere → |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Great Carina Nebula"
this entity surface form: "Keyhole Nebula"