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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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10/22/2024 11:15:44 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list
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10/22/2024 11:16:23 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
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10/22/2024 11:28:19 AM PDT
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! ๐ญ)
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posted on
10/22/2024 11:28:56 AM PDT
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dadfly
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Contrary to the theory of “star creation”, these look much more like a debris field.
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posted on
10/22/2024 11:29:29 AM PDT
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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.
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10/22/2024 11:31:59 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
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If one views the picture upside down is it as dramatic?
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posted on
10/22/2024 11:37:23 AM PDT
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NavyShoe
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I think I saw that band one time.
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posted on
10/22/2024 11:41:23 AM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancerโ )
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10/22/2024 11:52:28 AM PDT
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No name given
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MAGNIFICENT...
THANK YOU.
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10/22/2024 12:36:19 PM PDT
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ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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One of the classic cosmic pictures.
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10/22/2024 12:55:48 PM PDT
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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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