Carina is one of the largest star-forming regions in the Milky Way. It is about 7,600 light-years away.
This means that it would take 7,600 years traveling at the speed of light to go from Earth to Carina’s region. So this is not Carina Nebula as it looks today but as it did 7,600 years ago, when the light recorded by the new James Webb telescope left its source.
Read more at the Washington Post.