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The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46.
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]
English: Animation (0ː15) - Location of the "Pillars Of Creation" (JWST; 2022) within the Eagle Nebula (WISE; c.2010) - 11 November 2022 PIA25433: The Eagle Nebula Observed by WISE
Emission nebula: Eagle Nebula: 140 ly (43 pc) [58] H II region: Part of another diffuse nebula IC 4703. Rosette Nebula: 130 ly (40 pc) [59] H II region: Only 36 stars were known to be in this nebula but the Chandra telescope increased the number of known stars to 160. Lagoon Nebula: 110 ly (34 pc) [60] H II region: Veil Nebula: 100–130 ly (31 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant , or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope . [ 9 ]
James Webb was born in 1906 and lived in rural Granville County, on the northern border of North Carolina. His father was the superintendent of Granville County Schools. Webb attended UNC-Chapel Hill.
Evaporating gas globules were first conclusively identified via photographs of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. [2] [3] EGG's are the likely predecessors of new protostars. Inside an EGG the gas and dust are denser than in the surrounding dust cloud.
It is located 7,000 light-years away, in the Eagle Nebula. [8] There are multiple elephant trunks in the formation, one of which is approximately seven light-years long. Astronomers have made observations suggesting that the Pillars were possibly destroyed by the shock waves of a supernova 6,000 years ago. [9]