[Credit: Far-infrared: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Hill, Motte, HOBYS Key Programme Consortium; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger]
On The Universe this week they were talking about the impending destruction of the pillars of creation.
I suspect that in itself will touch off a wave of star creation as the shock wave passes through the cloud.
“If true, the expanding shock waves would have destroyed the visible structures, including the famous pillars...”
Pardon my ignorance but would not something as powerful as the Hubble telescope bring images far closer than the “visible” 6500 light years away?
This and the “Eye of Horus” are the best yet!!
Truly amazing, and such an accomplishment, the incredible technology it took to bring us these images.
So good to click these on after all the Newt/Romney/0bama/Gingrich endless blather. So refreshing.
I only wish my dad were still alive to see these images, a poor Indiana farm boy who studied physics and astro-physics and made it his life’s work. He never got tired of looking at the night sky and pointing out the constellations and planets to us kids.