Dust Mountains in the Carina Nebula . ... Created quite by accident, the energetic light and winds from these massive newborn stars burn away accumulations of dark dust and cool gas in a slow but persistent manner. Such is the case in NGC 3324 , a star forming region near the edge of NGC 3372 , the energetic and expansive Carina Nebula. ... The above image was created from archived Hubble Space Telescope data in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project . ...