The Pillars of Creation #3
by Eric Glaser
Title
The Pillars of Creation #3
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-coloured elephants trunks of the nebula's famous pillars.
The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. With these new images comes better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time.
Distance: 7000 light years
Constellation: Serpens Cauda
Credit:
NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
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February 8th, 2015
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