Astrophotograph made using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2; Filters: f439w (B), f502n ([O III]), f555w (V), f656n (H-alpha), f673n ([S II]), f814w (I)

NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (ngc 3372) are revealed in this image obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows bright filaments of hot, fluorescing gas and dark silhouetted clouds of cold molecules and dust, all of which are in rapid, chaotic motion. Numerous small dark globules seen in the image may be in the process of collapsing to form new stars.

The Hubble Heritage Team is comprised of Keith Noll, Zolt Levay, Lisa Frattare, Jayanne English, Howard Bond, Carol Christian, Forrest Hamilton, and Anne KinneyÜwith help from astronomers Nolan Walborn, Rodolfo Barb‡, and Adeline Caulet.