A Sistine Chapel Ceiling Across the Sky: Breathtaking (Pic)
Eta Carinae is a massive, unstable star in the Southern Sky which spews massive dust and intense winds thereby sculpting this amazing panorama of nebular gas and dust revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope using infrared radiation.
Eta Carinae is only 10,000 light years away from earth -- a short hop in Cosmic terms -- yet it is obscured by nebular gases and dust and made visible only through the "false light" of infra red.
The fantastic shapes stretch across the skies like a cosmic, new age rendition of the far less ambitious ceiling of the Sistine Chappel.
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