The original photo shows a star about to go nova...so the huge nebula of gas and dust would have been obliterated by now.
I actually posted an article within the last few months that addresses the really strange aspect of how the “pillars of creation” as they were called had already vanished when at the very moment we were first being astounded by it all. The huge distances involved and the limitations on the speed in which light can travel created the strange set of circumstances of what we were observing at the moment was not even there anymore.
Actually EVERYTHING you see is how it used to look. Some of it looks like it did a fraction of a second ago and in the case of the Eagle Nebula what we see happened about 7000 years ago. I’m in awe every time I look into the night sky and realize I’m looking back in time! We’ll never know what the universe currently looks like because the scale only allows us to see what it did look like. Truly mind boggling.