Pan over Pillars of Creation — visible

This video pans over the new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.

This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-coloured glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-coloured elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars.

The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. With these new images comes better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time.

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Credit:
NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

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I wish it was mentally possible to imagine how large that must be. Not just mathematically or scientifically, its something no field of study we have today could put to scale.