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Panning over a section of the James Webb Space Telescope's image of cliffs of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula. The sharp edge is the boundary between dense clouds of gas and dust and a space above that has been cleared by the intense radiation from hot young stars, which continually erodes the dust clouds. The radiation is from the star cluster NGC 3324, a cluster around 12 million years old that formed from the gas in the nebula. The cluster and nebula are around 7600 light years from Earth. This image was captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and it reveals previously obscured areas of star birth. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula's wall by slowly eroding it away