Magnifying "Mystic Mountain" within the Carina Nebula

This video, which was created to celebrate the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 20 years in orbit, focuses in on a craggy fantasy hilltop that resembles a strange scene from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and is cloaked in hazy clouds. The Hubble image, even more spectacular than science fiction, shows the frantic activity atop a three light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being consumed by the intense light of neighboring bright stars. The child stars buried inside the pillar are launching jets of gas that are visible flowing from tall peaks, attacking the pillar from within as well.