Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/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

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