NASA and ESA’s incredible view of the ‘Pillars of Creation’, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope , has become one of the most iconic views of our cosmos since it was first captured in .
The agencies’ newest image of the structure in the Eagle Nebula, however, has left us speechless.
It shows the radiating glow of the pillars in infrared light – and you can see the infrared light piercing through dust and gas, giving the pillars a spectacular blueish shadow.
(NASA, ESA / Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team)
image of the pillars , a composite of three different images compiled using visible light, shows the pillars located in the Eagle Nebula throwing off cool hydrogen gas and cosmic dust.
The 2019 image of the pillars. (NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University))
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The new infrared version is not the first time images of this cosmic structure have been revisited . In 2020 , astronomers assembled a more detailed image captured in visible light.
(NASA, ESA / Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team)
First discovered in by Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, (the Eagle Nebula) is roughly 7, 13 light-years from Earth, a nursery for stars in the Serpens constellation.
At four to five light-years in width, the pillar structure is immense, although it’s just a relatively small structure compared to the overall nebula, which spans a staggering by light-years .
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