Hubble photographs the Pillars of Creation
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A Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 mosaic of columns of dust and molecular gas in the Eagle Nebula became one of the most reproduced astronomical images ever made. Its scientific content is the mechanism it shows: the ultraviolet radiation of nearby massive young stars is simultaneously illuminating the columns and photo-evaporating them, exposing dense cores that may or may not survive long enough to form stars. Hubble re-imaged the same region with Wide Field Camera 3 in 2014, and JWST imaged it in the near infrared in 2022, where the dust becomes partly transparent and embedded protostars are visible.
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- Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) and the Pillars of Creationconcerns
- Giant molecular cloudconcerns
- Protostarconcerns
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