HH 901/HH 902 | Carina Constellation Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt PopSocket Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

This object

data reduction and final colour processing of the image was done by Henri Boffin (ESO)

Located roughly 370 light-years from Earth

stand out as exaggerated purple

HH 901/HH 902 | Carina Constellation Men's Organic Cotton T-Shirt PopSocket Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScIThe NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar gas and dust rising from a tempestuous stellar nursery located in the Carina Nebula, 7500 light years away in the southern constellation of Carina. This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars and is teeming with new star forming activity. Hot, young stars erode and sculpt the clouds into this fantasy landscape by sending out thick stellar winds