New 'Pillars Of Creation' Hubble Image Is Breathtaking | Video

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What blows my mind the most is the sheer scale of these clouds. Take the left pillar, at around 4 light years long, that equates to over 250'000 times the distance from earth to the sun. To make that figure easier to relate to; I have a picture of the "Pillars of Creation" where the left pillar is almost exactly 400 pixels long. At that scale I realised that every pixel of the image was large enough to hold our solar system (to Neptune) laid flat like a penny, 100 times in a 10x10 grid. That makes each pixel of such an image 60 Billion Miles a side. The Pillar is around 94 Trillion Miles high, and yet its a tiny spec in a galaxy, which itself is a tiny spec in the observable universe. I still can't quite get my head around that level of enormity!

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The fact that the pillars might not exist as of now is fascinating. Due to the enormous distance between us and the pillars, light takes years to reach us, so we are literally seeing in the past

SC-RGX
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This just kind of makes me wish that we had more orbital observatories.

sarahszabo
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It's so amazing and wonderous to me that these structures are long gone, destroyed by the waves of a supernova, and that we just haven't received that light yet. We piddly Earthlings truly have no concept of cosmic time and distance. The Universe is incredible and astonishing.

davebrady
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0:11 you can't tell me you don't notice that scared beady-eyed dog in the middle

kenyovideos
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This is perhaps the most beautiful nebula ever seen

detectivehobsonv.
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Really breathtaking and also breath stopping when you will learn how long these pillars are. Hold your breath, the central pillar is 41 trillion kilometres in length. A lot of people cannot even comprehend that length. Just for comparison the distance between the Sun and our planet is mere 150 million kilometres. These are called pillars of creation because they will result into formation of new stars and left over material will form planets. May be looking at these pillars takes us back to time when our own Solar system was created about 5 billion years ago.

theragingcyclone
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Whenever i see stuff like this i feel kind of sad. because ill never get to see it with my own eyes.

jackskatter.
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Hubble, the old veteran that still takes the young ones to school.

aserta
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And our Mighty GOD spoke and everything was created, He placed every star in its place..
What a Mighty GOD we serve.

kishdeval
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Can't wait to see what James Webb telescope can do one of the successor of Hubble

everydaylife
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I have no words. I actually teared up. Spectacular.

intheredcold
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The farther left pillar looks like a friendly dragon... I love it.

Crimson-Iden
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سبحان الله العظيم الذي رفع السماوات بغير عمد نراها. سبحان الذي خلق كل شيء. ربي احمدك على نعمة الاسلام

saberjhon
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The saddest thing is that those pillars are destroyed by a supernova. We won't be able to see the destruction for 1000 more years, but at least these pictures will never die.

Hotshotter
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O! Be still my beating heart. This is truly OMG Beautiful. Thank you NASA Hubble for this stupendous gift.

PoetMountain
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The first, 1995 shot is still the best, most iconic photo of the pillars which, by the way, are light years long!

TerryUniGeezerPeterson
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to me this is cosmic horror because even we do have the pictures and research about it, we still do not fully understand the universe and that would feel us insignificant

zeffmalchazeen
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everybody gansta until the pillar men comes in

greentea
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Huh?  I'm prettysure that famous Hubble picture of the colourful _Pillars of Creation_ is *NOT* solely a visible light image, it's a false colour image.

The Hubble camera which took the image can see not just visible light but also ultraviolet and IR, and these wavelengths were integrated into the result to make a more spectacular composite FALSE COLOUR image.

The new camera which took the new image can see more of the IR spectrum, but the original image captured some IR as well.

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