Posted on 03/14/2022 4:14:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Where do stars form? One place, star forming regions known as "EGGs", are being uncovered at the end of this giant pillar of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula (M16). Short for evaporating gaseous globules, EGGs are dense regions of mostly molecular hydrogen gas that fragment and gravitationally collapse to form stars. Light from the hottest and brightest of these new stars heats the end of the pillar and causes further evaporation of gas and dust -- revealing yet more EGGs and more young stars. This featured picture was created from exposures spanning over 30 hours with the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in 2014, and digitally processed with modern software by experienced volunteers in Argentina. Newborn stars will gradually destroy their birth pillars over the next 100,000 years or so -- if a supernova doesn't destroy them first.
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A close-up of the “Pillars of Creation”.
One of the truly magnificent Hubble photos, aptly titled.
Kind of looks like a bunch of brontosaurii necks & heads (excuse me, APATOSAURII necks & heads — heh).
A pink-eyed alligator.
Dog at “destroy”.
My Pillars of Creation below with a consumer grade camera. The area at center is what Hubble captured above.
After processing the data, I enlarged the central area seen below.
If I only had Hubble's budget.
I remember that album!
THOSE are good pictures!! I haven’t seen a realistic one from Apod in years!!
I could easily see your picture in #2 or the first picture in #8 being an album cover. Album covers are often works of art...and APOD pictures are art!
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