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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 took the first photo of the Pillars of Creation in 1995. Decades later, Webb captured its clouds of gas and dust in even more detail. Side-by-side images of the 'Pillars of Creation' show ...
The post These stunning ’Pillars of Creation’ photos were captured from someone’s backyard appeared first on BGR. Perhaps one of the most iconic, though, is its capture of Hubble’s Pillars ...
The pillars of cosmic dust captured in a famous 1995 photo by the Hubble has just been giving another perspective by the James Webb Space Telescope. The pillars of cosmic dust captured in a famous ...
The WISE data reveals the entire structure of the nebula surrounding the pillars, which themselves can be seen as a faint yellow-green feature inside the white circle. While the WISE view of the "Pillars" is not as sharp as those taken by Webb and Hubble, the telescope's wide field of view allows us to explore the extended nebula around it.
Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, [4] [5] an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the
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. The 2014 re-do provided considerably more ...
Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out Creator NASA. Support as nominator – Nergaal 23:55, 7 January 2015 (UTC) Support Support full-res version - There are many NASA pictures that need to be nominated for FP - DUCK404 a 01:42, 8 January 2015 (UTC)