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EAGLE NEBULA7000 light-years Made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Eagle Nebula is shown in all its glory in this image made at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Right in the middle are the dust columns that became known as the Pillars of Creation. Here we see they are just part of a larger hollow shell of star formation, with a young star cluster at its centre. The colours are artificial and represent light given off by glowing hydrogen (green), oxygen (blue) and sulphur (red). Credit: Image made in visible light by T. Rector and B. Wolpa for NOAO / AURA / NSF. |