Carina Nebula Infrared Panorama Space Wallpaper

By SPACE.com Staff | February 13, 2012 03:32pm ET

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This cool space wallpaper shows a 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. Image released February 8, 2012. [See full story.]

Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch