                    APOD: 2018 April 6 - NGC 3324 in Carina

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                                 2018 April 6
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                              NGC 3324 in Carina
                Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Martin Pugh [4]

Explanation: This bright cosmic cloud [5] was sculpted by stellar winds and
radiation from the hot young stars of open cluster NGC 3324. With dust clouds
in silhouette against its glowing atomic gas, the pocket-shaped [6]
star-forming region actually spans about 35 light-years. It lies some 7,500
light-years away toward the nebula rich southern constellation Carina [7] . A
composite of narrowband image data, the telescopic view captures the
characteristic emission from ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms mapped
to red, green, and blue hues [8]  in the popular Hubble Palette. For some, the
celestial landscape of bright ridges of emission bordered by cool, obscuring
dust along [9] the right side create a recognizable face in profile. The
region's popular name is the Gabriela Mistral Nebula [10]  for the Nobel Prize
winning Chilean poet.

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