September 13, 2010 - Blowing in the Wind

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The Week in Space

September 13-19, 2010

Blowing in the Wind This three-dimensional-looking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the edge of a giant gaseous cavity within the star-forming region called NGC 3324. Set amid a backdrop of softly glowing blue light are wispy tendrils of gas as well as dark trunks of dust that are light-years in height. The glowing nebula has been carved out by intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from several hot young stars. A cluster of extremely massive stars located in the center of the nebula (well outside this image to the right) is responsible for the ionization of the nebula and excavation of the cavity. The radiation from those stars is a wind blowing the denser dust and gas on the left, creating the sharply defined boundary. NGC 3324 is in the constellation Carina, about 7,200 light-years away from Earth.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)