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A new view of an old favorite!

This sparkling new image depicts a small section of the Carina Nebula, one of Hubble’s most-imaged objects. It’s about 7,500 light-years away, and busy with cosmic activity – including star birth and death!

Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/3PsWuwv
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iirc, it is also where the aliens came from in Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End

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