Mystic Mountain is a photograph and a term for a region in the
Carina Nebula imaged by the
Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new
Wide Field Camera 3, though the region was also viewed by the previous generation instrument. The new view celebrated the telescope's 20th anniversary of being in space in 2010.
[1] Mystic Mountain contains multiple
Herbig-Haro objects where
nascent stars are firing off jets of gas which interact with surrounding clouds of gas and dust.
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This region is about 7,500
light-years (2,300
pc) away from Earth. The pillar measures around three light-years in height (190,000
astronomical units).
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