Mystic Mountain

Mystic Mountain is a photograph and a term for a region in the Carina Nebula imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new Wide Field Camera 3, though the region was also viewed by the previous generation instrument. The new view celebrated the telescope's 20th anniversary of being in space in 2010.^[1] Mystic Mountain contains multiple Herbig–Haro objects where nascent stars are firing off jets of gas which interact with surrounding clouds of gas and dust.^[2]^[3] This region is about 7,500 light-years (2,300 parsecs) away from Earth. The pillar measures around three light-years in height (190,000 astronomical units).^[1] The name was influenced by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.^[4]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Achenbach, Joel (16 April 2015). "Mystic Mountain: Is this the Hubble Space Telescope's greatest image?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
^ "Interactive: The Carina Nebula in all its Glory..." The Hubble Heritage Project. 24 April 2007. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
^ "Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery". Hubblesite.org. 22 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 December 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
^ Sheehan, William; Conselice, Christopher J. (2015). "What Stuff Stars Are Made Of". Galactic Encounters: Our Majestic and Evolving Star-System, From the Big Bang to Time's End. New York: Springer. p. 166. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-85347-5_8. ISBN 978-0-387-85347-5.

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Media related to Mystic Mountain at Wikimedia Commons

"Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery" by Hubblesite.org (20th Anniversary collection)
"Star-forming regions in the Carina Nebula" by Hubblesite.org (17th Anniversary collection)

[wapo20150416-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Achenbach, Joel (16 April 2015). "Mystic Mountain: Is this the Hubble Space Telescope's greatest image?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2016.

[heritage20070424-2] "Interactive: The Carina Nebula in all its Glory..." The Hubble Heritage Project. 24 April 2007. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2016.

[hubsite20100422-3] "Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery". Hubblesite.org. 22 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 December 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016.

[4] Sheehan, William; Conselice, Christopher J. (2015). "What Stuff Stars Are Made Of". Galactic Encounters: Our Majestic and Evolving Star-System, From the Big Bang to Time's End. New York: Springer. p. 166. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-85347-5_8. ISBN 978-0-387-85347-5.

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v t e Hubble Space Telescope
Current instruments	Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)
Previous instruments	Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) Faint Object Camera (FOC) Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS/HRS) High Speed Photometer (HSP) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)
Space Shuttle missions	Launch: STS-31 (1990, Discovery) Servicing: STS-61 (1993, Endeavour) STS-82 (1997, Discovery) STS-103 (1999, Discovery) STS-109 (2002, Columbia) STS-125 (2009, Atlantis)
Special fields and images	Pillars of Creation (1995) Hubble Deep Field (1995) Hubble Deep Field South (1998) Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (2003–04) Extended Groth Strip (2004–05) SWEEPS (2006) Mystic Mountain (2010) Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (2012) Hubble Legacy Field (2019) Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Anniversary images List of deep fields
Related	Great Observatories program Space Telescope Science Institute Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Edwin Hubble Hubble (2010 documentary) Hubble Origins Probe
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