NGC 3324 – The Gabriela Mistral Nebula (Carina) in SHO palette
Located at the northwestern edge of the Carina Nebula complex, NGC 3324 is a compact H II region ionized by young massive stars from the open cluster NGC 3324. The characteristic ridge structure results from intense UV radiation and stellar winds carving into the adjacent molecular cloud, triggering secondary star formation along the ionization front.
NGC 3324 is often referred to as the Gabriela Mistral Nebula, a poetic nod to the Chilean Nobel laureate, due to the resemblance of its emission ridge to a human profile in visible light.
this image pay respect to the famous region imaged by JWST the “Cosmic Cliffs” one of the first deep IR views released by the observatory.
The picture was made with a remote telescope in Chile over 17h hours of exposure in SHO