Mystic Mountain III (Carina) Size:24" x 16" (61 cm x 41 cm) The deepest and sharpest view

The deepest and sharpest view ever

Tugging and flexing from Jupiter's gravity generates enough heat to keep the ocean from freezing

where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas

2005 by the Cassini spacecraft

Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal

Mystic Mountain III (Carina) Size:24" x 16" (61 cm x 41 cm) The deepest and sharpest viewThis craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a three light year tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted