Dark Pillars in the Carina Nebula

The Carina Nebula: James Webb Telescope's First Target

Webb's first science images: Carina Nebula

Zooming on Western Wall of The Carina Nebula | NOIRLab

Trumpler 14 is located 8,000 light-years away in the Carina Nebula, a huge star formation region. This 500,000-year-old star cluster has one of the highest concentrations of massive stars in our entire Milky Way Galaxy. A small nugget of cold molecular hydrogen, called a Bok globule, is silhouetted subtly against the star cluster. Furiously burning their hydrogen fuel, the cluster's blue-white stars will soon explode as supernovae in a few million years. The combination of stellar ‘winds’ and su