Cosmic Cliffs - Panorama Print Apart from the iconic pine

Apart from the iconic pine tree

Two misshapen spiral galaxies combine to form a beautiful celestial flower in this Hubble image taken with the Wide Field Camera 3

These arms serve an important purpose in spiral galaxies

ultraviolet radiation

nascent stars

Cosmic Cliffs - Panorama Print Apart from the iconic pineWhat looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth. Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light years away. The