NGC 3372 (Carina Nebula) | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:White and then entered a phase

and then entered a phase of more violent and highly directed mass ejections

This image actually shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

The orbit’s angle to us

Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

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NGC 3372 (Carina Nebula) | Milky Way Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt Color:White and then entered a phaseThis broad image of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK I camera on ESOs Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged. Credit: ESO T. Preibisch