Carina Nebula
At a glance
- Type
- Nebula
- Distance
- Milky Way
- Naked eye
- Seen without a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Multicoloured
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- It is home to Eta Carinae, a giant star that flared up in the 1840s and briefly became the second brightest star in the sky.
- Webb's famous Cosmic Cliffs picture from 2022 shows a part of this nebula.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q50042 · All space objects · All entries