HUBBLE ATLAS

Nebulae

Zoom to Nebula Gum 29 and Star Cluster Westerlund 2

April 23, 2015 · NASA

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This animation begins with a backyard view of the southern night sky near the constellations of Carina and Vela. After outlining the constellations, the sequence zooms in past the well-known Carina Nebula to the neighboring nebula Gum 29. During the zoom, the images dissolve from a wide-field view down to the high-resolution Hubble image, a mosaic of nine Hubble observations.