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Astronomy Picture of the Day - M16: Pillars of Star Creation
NASA ^ | 22 Oct, 2024 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Processing: Diego Pisano

Posted on 10/22/2024 11:15:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing picture of the Eagle Nebula combines visible light exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope with infrared images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope to highlight evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars. At each pillar's end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density material to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed. The Eagle Nebula, associated with the open star cluster M16, lies about 7000 light years away.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 10/22/2024 11:15:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/22/2024 11:15:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 10/22/2024 11:16:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Very nice!


4 posted on 10/22/2024 11:28:19 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! ๐Ÿ”ญ)
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To: MtnClimber

beautiful. praise Jesus!


5 posted on 10/22/2024 11:28:56 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: MtnClimber

Contrary to the theory of “star creation”, these look much more like a debris field.


6 posted on 10/22/2024 11:29:29 AM PDT by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
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Rocky planets cannot form from hydrogen. They only form from the debris fields. Including Earf.


7 posted on 10/22/2024 11:31:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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If one views the picture upside down is it as dramatic?


8 posted on 10/22/2024 11:37:23 AM PDT by NavyShoe
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9 posted on 10/22/2024 11:39:07 AM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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I think I saw that band one time.


10 posted on 10/22/2024 11:41:23 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancerโ€ )
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Wow.


11 posted on 10/22/2024 11:52:28 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who youโ€™ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

MAGNIFICENT...

THANK YOU.


12 posted on 10/22/2024 12:36:19 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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One of the classic cosmic pictures.


13 posted on 10/22/2024 12:55:48 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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