Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carina Nebula panorama

Carina Nebula panorama

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Original – "This broad panorama of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular celestial landscape of gas, dust and young stars, have emerged." - from the ESO description

Reason

Beautiful and encyclopedic ESO image of the Carina Nebula. This is the lead image for the article.

Articles in which this image appears

Carina Nebula, Caldwell catalogue

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

ESO/T. Preibisch

• Support as nominator --Pine^✉ 18:57, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support -- Colin°^Talk 13:01, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
• Comment I have just uploaded a new very much larger version of this file at 116 megapixels. Colin°^Talk 22:54, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
• Comment — I've added some annotations to the image (visible in Commons) and have expanded the image description somewhat. This may help the EV of the image. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 11:34, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support as per nominated, as it is a beautiful image. --Clarkcj12 (talk) 17:23, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support -- mathwhiz29 18:03, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support Thanks for uploading the larger version, I prefer it over the smaller version and obviously over the cropped version. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 22:01, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support, beautiful and useful image. --Carioca (talk) 20:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Love it. Rreagan007 (talk) 06:10, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Carina Nebula.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:34, 12 March 2013 (UTC)