Helix Material:Fabric Wall Mural while the darker red areas

while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures

Located near the Trapezium stars are stars still young enough to have disks of material encircling them

This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula

The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left

Helix Material:Fabric Wall Mural while the darker red areasThis colour composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2. 2 metre Max Planck Society ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile. The blue green glow in the centre of the Helix comes from oxygen atoms shining under effects of the intense ultraviolet radiation of the 120,000 degree Celsius central star and the hot gas. Further out from the star