Zoom into Pillars of Creation

This video zooms from a ground-based view into a three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16), based on images obtained with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, finishing on the new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.

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NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

[Nodir]

I have seen pictures of the Pillars of Creation many times, but until now I hadn't known its position. As I see now, it is near the center of the Milky Way (as it is seen from Earth). Thank you for the video!

[deathxunnat]

So they call them pillars of creation....you know theres a legendary item and a bossfight waiting there

[Dylan-blxl]

It looks so magical, like an illustration from a fantasy book, yet it's all real and happening in our universe....😍🤯

[chioaviles]

From the first time I saw a photograph of these Pillars, I fell in love with them, it is the most fantastic thing I have seen, and there is much to see in the Universe.

[maximus]

0:43 flipped the colors very nicely! Good editing
Combined the hubble colors and real colors perfectly

[gabex]

I remember seeing these in a textbook meant to enhance ones reading skills when I was a child and I think that’s when I fell in love with the space

[Guigley]

The spire formation on the left of the Pillars of Creation is almost 10 light years long. That amounts to 55 trillion miles. If we were to travel 24, 000 mph, it would take around 2.3 billion years to travel the whole distance.

[ChasinOneTwelve]

I don’t know why, something so eerie about it, yet so peaceful.

[k.chriscaldwell]

Years ago I read that each pillar is over 4 light-years in length from base to tip. Light-years!

[alegogo]

0:03 the pillars of creation (wich are considerably bigger than our solar sistem look less than microscopic in that frame, let that sink in

[avedic]

It is beyond mind numbing how MANY stars there in our one little galaxy.
It's insane....you can zoom into a teeny tiny piece of it...and the image is just littered with stars.
What looks like dust....or like someone used a toothbrush to splatter tiny drops of paint....every single point is a damn star.
And we're going around just ONE of those pin pricks of light. Absolutely unreal.... And this is just ONE galaxy.

[taco]

the editing on this video is top notch. the zoom in is surprisingly smooth

[adamwashington]

This was a very beautiful presentation. God bless you all.

[lezzatltd]

We need more of these. Explain what it is, how big, why it is looking like this. This sort of content sparks future scientists!!

[blakjack]

Creation: the correct term to define the existence of the universe.

[washingtonsantos]

The pillars of creation must be part of one of the seven wonders of the universe, fantastic

[lolstuffenjoy]

I'm looking into an image and I expect it to be low quality when it zoomed in, but no it just keeps going and going and going and getting even more high quality as it zoomed. HOW

The fact that the Pillars don't exist anymore is astonishing!

[RenegadeShepTheSpacer]

I can't wait to see the views through the James Webb.

[keepthefaith]

that should be the ambition of everyone. it will out class all the happiness and joy in history.