Science Source Stock Photo - Pillars of Creation, Eagle Nebula

Pillars of Creation, Eagle Nebula

Description: Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the glow of gas clouds, dark cosmic dust, and the nebula's pillars of interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that act as incubators for new stars. The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. The improved contrast and clearer view of this feature in space will give astronomers an opportunity to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time. The Eagle Nebula is about 7000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS2666544

Legacy Identifier: JB6153

Type: Image

Size: 7192px × 7501px (~154 MB)

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