An image of the Eta Carinae nebula taken by Michael Brown with a CCD camera on the 40 inch telescope at Siding Spring Observatory. This image contains some of the brightest stars known in our galaxy. One of these stars, Eta Carinae, is the very bright star near the centre of the image. A cluster of young stars (Trumpler 14) can be seen at the top right of the image. Click here for a larger image of this nebula. Superb photographs of Eta Carinae can be found at David Malin's web site at the Anglo Australian Observatory.

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