Sometimes it is hard to keep the faith in a seemingly chaotic world. This stunning print will remind you to trust that you will make it. Even though you may be going through chaos and confusion, the universe has a plan and your life is unfolding as it meant to. After the storm beautiful things will grow, out of chaos order will come and you will find yourself after being lost. Trust the universe.

These inspiring words are overlaid on a fantastic NASA photo of the ‘Cosmic Cliffs’ in the Carina Nebula. What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region known as NGC 3324. This rim of a gigantic, gaseous cavity is 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. 

This image reveals hundreds of stars, and even numerous background galaxies. Young stars and their dusty, planet-forming disks shine brightly in the mid-infrared, appearing pink and red. The image show structures that are embedded in the dust and the stellar sources of massive jets and outflows. The hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds on the surface of the ridges glow, giving the appearance of jagged rocks.

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. 

95 × 36.85 cm, fine art giclee print Hahnemühle 200gsm white paper.