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This video clip shows a visualization of the three-dimensional structure of the Pillars of Creation. Closer view of one pillar. Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light-years (2,000–2,100 pc; 61–66 Em) from Earth. [1]
Hubble first imaged the Pillars of Creation in 1995 (see below), but the technology at the time revealed only a fraction of the stars in the region.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a fresh view of the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region that has become a famed celestial sight.
The Pillars of Creation are the most famous example of astronomic elephant trunks. NASA was able to produce a picture of this formation by compositing multiple images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is located 7,000 light-years away, in the Eagle Nebula. [8]
Astronomers will be able to develop a better understanding of how stars form thanks to this ghostly image, which arrives just in time for Halloween.
Hubble Space Telescope image known as Pillars of Creation, where stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. In the dense nebulae where stars are produced, much of the hydrogen is in the molecular (H 2) form, so these nebulae are called molecular clouds. [4]
The Pillars of Creation became famous in 1995 after the Hubble Space Telescope captured images of the towering clouds of cosmic dust and gas located 6,500 light-years away from Earth. Nearly three ...
English: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation strikes a chilling tone. Thousands of stars that exist in this region disappear – and seemingly endless layers of gas and dust become the centerpiece.