Carina Nebula Mountaintop Washington Monument Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)

Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)

The Western Meadowlark is a common songbird in open country well across the majority of the western part of the North American continent

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Carina Nebula Mountaintop Washington Monument Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)This 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