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NASA Explores the Carina Nebula by Touch

NASA Explores the Carina Nebula by Touch
Date taken Fri Dec 08 2017 Authorship NASA's GSFC centre Keywords & Keyphrases NASA Explores the Carina Nebula by Touch · space · flight · center · science · nasa · goddard · hubble · visuallyimpaired · gsfc · goddardspaceflightcenter · carinanebula Metadata JSON

Behind the image

Release Date March 30, 2010 The raised arcs, lines, dots, and other markings in this 17-by-11-inch Hubble Space Telescope image of the Carina Nebula highlight important features in the giant gas cloud, allowing visually impaired people to feel what they cannot see and form a picture of the nebula in their minds. To read more abou this image go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/carina-touch.html Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Mutchler (STScI/AURA) and N. Grice (You Can Do Astronomy LLC) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.