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Credit & Copyright: Emanuele Colognato & Jim Wood
(Backyard Skies)
Explanation:
What lights up this
castle of star formation?
The familiar
Eagle Nebula glows bright in many colors at once.
The
above image is a composite of three of these glowing gas colors.
Pillars of dark dust
nicely outline some of the denser
towers of
star formation.
Energetic light from young massive stars
causes the gas to glow and effectively
boils away part of the
dust and gas from its birth pillar.
Many of these stars will
explode after several million years,
returning most of their elements back to the nebula which formed them.
This process is forming an
open cluster of stars known as
M16.
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Publications with keywords: M 16 - Eagle Nebula - pillar
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See also:
- APOD: 2026 May 31 Á Eagle Nebula Pillars in Infrared from Hubble
- APOD: 2024 October 22 Á M16: Pillars of Star Creation
- APOD: 2023 July 25 Á The Eagle Nebula with Xray Hot Stars
- APOD: 2023 May 15 Á M16: Eagle Nebula Deep Field
- M16: A Star Forming Pillar from Webb
- Pillars of Creation
- Star Forming Eagle Nebula without Stars