Gorgeous Nebula Photos Reveal 'Pillars of Destruction'

Colorful new images of the Carina Nebula, a massive stellar nursery 7,500 light-years from Earth, reveal that new star births are destroying the very clouds of gas and dust from which they spawned. Long, finger-like pillars and spires made of cosmic gas and dust protrude into space from all over the Carina Nebula. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile created the images with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument.

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