Mystic Mountain VI (Carina) Size:36" x 24" (91 cm x 61 cm) and city lights at a

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Blue and red supergiant stars

and pastures surround the graceful swirls and whorls of the Mississippi River

A Bok globule nicknamed the "caterpillar" appears at the right

Mystic Mountain VI (Carina) Size:36" x 24" (91 cm x 61 cm) and city lights at aAt the top of this interstellar mountain is a star that is slowly breaking it down. The huge mountain, a series of pillars of gas and dust, measures light years in length. The top star is not itself visible through the opaque interstellar dust but is bursting out partly by ejecting opposing 1 2 light year wide beams of energetic particles called Herbig Haro jets. Located about 7,500 light years away in the Carina Nebula and known informally as Mystic