Star Formation from The Carina Nebula to The Cosmic Cliffs | NASA FriendsofNASA.org: This scientific visualization traverses the vast star-forming region of the Carina Nebula Complex using multiwavelength data from NASA space telescopes. The narrated journey explores clusters of massive young stars, the mottled structure of dust clouds, and high-energy x-ray emission, before embarking on a 3D flight through the James Webb Space Telescope’s famous image nicknamed “Cosmic Cliffs”. The sequence sta

This cosmic landscape is actually one of the largest star-forming regions in the Milky Way. M17, also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula, is a hot bed of newly born stars, surrounded by colorful blankets of glowing gas and an enormous cold dark hydrogen cloud. First discovered in 1745, the nebula sits 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The nebula is illuminated and sculpted by ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars just outside of the images featured in this