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To celebrate the Hubble telescopes 20th Birthday, NASA, ESA and the Space Telescope Science Institute are releasing a new Hubble photo of a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Three light-year-tall towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. The scene is reminiscent of Hubble's classic "Pillars of Creation" photo from 1995, but even more striking.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA/STScI