Space's mystic mountain

Although this shot is nine years old, astronomers decided to revisit a segment of the Hubble Space Telescope’s colourful and mind-boggling picture of the Carina Nebula. This three light year-long pillar of dust and gas, also referred to as the ‘Mystic Mountain’, is a fountain of youth as new stars are constantly being born within. The different colours in this image correspond to different elements detected, for example oxygen is blue, hydrogen and nitrogen are green and sulphur is red.