The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest star-forming regions in the sky, a turbulent cloud of glowing gas and dark dust roughly 300 light-years across in the southern constellation Carina. It is famous for harboring Eta Carinae, an unstable hypergiant about 100 times the Sun's mass, and for being among the first dazzling targets imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022.

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