HUBBLE: PILLARS OF CREATION ARE ALSO PILLARS OF DESTRUCTION Although NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called “Pillars of Creation.” The jaw-dropping photo, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:09:34 +0000
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