Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula - NIRCam Compass Image Youth T-Shirt

"'Cosmic Cliffs' in the Carina Nebula (NIRCam Compass Image)"

Release Date: July 12, 2022

About This Image:

Image of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3324) captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), with compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference.

The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky. Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ground (as seen from above).

The scale bar is labeled in light-years, which is the distance that light travels in one Earth-year. (It takes 2 years for light to travel a distance equal to the length of the scale bar.) One light-year is equal to about 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers. The field of view shown in this image is approximately 16 light-years across.

This image shows invisible near-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-l...

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