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Southern showcase

Josh Jones/Kaptas Attila, taken via Deep Sky Chile

The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is the sky’s most impressive emission nebula, bar none, for visual observers. Also pictured in this wide-field image at left is NGC 3324, an open star cluster that appears to lie within a blue lagoon in this Hubble-palette image taken with a 6.3-inch scope and more than 36 hours of exposure. The latter object is most famous for being home to the Cosmic Cliffs — a region imaged by both Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope.