[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: J. Hester, P. Scowen (ASU), HST, NASA]

[blueunicorn6]

“Evaporating Gaseous Globules”

Moderators! Moderators! SunkenCiv is posting space bathroom photos again!

Wash his mouth out with soap!

[hattend]

The pillars of creation were imaged again in 2007 by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light, leading to the conjecture that the pillars may already have been destroyed by a local supernova, but light from that event has yet to reach the Earth.

If I read this right, they have seen a supernova nearby, they just haven't yet seen it's influence on the pillars.

Otherwise, I'm stumped by their conjecturing....