Description
The Statue of Liberty Nebula (NGC 3576) is a striking emission nebula located about 9,000 light-years away in the Carina constellation. Drifting through the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way, its intricate shapes are sculpted by stellar winds from young, massive stars and ongoing star formation.
This beautiful portrait of the nebula was captured by a Planewave CDK24 telescope at El Sauce Observatory in Chile. It combines narrowband data that isolates light from sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen wavelengths to create this false-color image.
The raw data was curated by a remote telescope service and then combined, calibrated, and processed by Richard Leighton to produce the final image.
