Eta Carinae Nebula

This image is a colour composite of Eta Carinae Nebula made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). It is located about 7500 light-years away in the constellation of the same name and it spans 100 light-years. It is an intensive star-forming region with dark lanes of cool dust splitting up the glowing nebula gas that surrounds its many clusters of stars.