Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carina Nebula panorama

Carina Nebula panorama

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Original – "This broad panorama 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 ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged." - from the ESO description

Reason: Beautiful and encyclopedic ESO image of the Carina Nebula. This is the lead image for the article.
Articles in which this image appears: Carina Nebula, Caldwell catalogue
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator: ESO/T. Preibisch

Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 18:57, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Colin°^Talk 13:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I have just uploaded a new very much larger version of this file at 116 megapixels. Colin°^Talk 22:54, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment — I've added some annotations to the image (visible in Commons) and have expanded the image description somewhat. This may help the EV of the image. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 11:34, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per nominated, as it is a beautiful image. --Clarkcj12 (talk) 17:23, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- mathwhiz 29 18:03, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks for uploading the larger version, I prefer it over the smaller version and obviously over the cropped version. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 22:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support, beautiful and useful image. --Carioca (talk) 20:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Love it. Rreagan007 (talk) 06:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Carina Nebula.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:34, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]