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From Earth to the Universe: Picture of the day

CARINA NEBULA The Carina Nebula, an immense landscape of dark dust columns silhouetted against glowing gas clouds, which lies about 7500 light years away in the southern sky. The nebula, almost 500 trillion kilometres wide, is both lit and sculpted by the intense radiation of its brilliant young stars. Credit: Image made in visible light by N. Smith (UC Berkeley) and the NASA / ESA Hubble Heritage Team.

In 2009, the "From Earth to the Universe" project brought astronomy to millions of people around the world. Take a tour of just some of the locations in a short video on the FETTU Highlights page.