# The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope

- By: ESO
- Date: 2012-12-06
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1250a/
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_spectacular_star-forming_Carina_Nebula_imaged_by_the_VLT_Survey_Telescope.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/The_spectacular_star-forming_Carina_Nebula_imaged_by_the_VLT_Survey_Telescope.jpg/1920px-The_spectacular_star-forming_Carina_Nebula_imaged_by_the_VLT_Survey_Telescope.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. This picture was taken with the help of Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile, during his visit to the observatory on 5 June 2012 and was released on the occasion of the new telescope’s inauguration in Naples on 6 December 2012.