Enjoy a cosmically cozy vibe at home with this plush intergalactic velveteen blanket. It's soft to the touch and pleasantly warm.
The blanket is customized with a one-sided print of the "Cosmic Cliffs In The Carina Nebula", one of the most stunning images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope so far. Available in two sizes: 50x60 inches, 60x80 inches. Warning: Though this blanket is the perfect gift for friends and family, you may want to keep it for yourself.
Due to variations in the production process, blanket sizes may vary by up to 3 inches shorter than their listed size.
.: 100% polyester .: The intergalactic print fully covers one side of the blanket in high detail and vibrant color .: Medium heavy-weight fabric (8.85 oz/yd² (300 g/m²)) that feels extra soft to the touch (thickness of the fabric may slightly vary)
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About This Image: What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.
Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away.
-- The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation.
-- Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.
-- Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.
-- Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars.
-- A “blow-out” erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing gas and dust into the interstellar medium.
-- An unusual “arch” appears, looking like a bent-over cylinder.
This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years – but Webb’s extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event.
Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae.
