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September 30, 2013
Pillars of dust.........
The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight
whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts. Pictured
is one of several striking dust pillars of the Eagle Nebula that might be
described as a gigantic alien fairy. This fairy, however, is
ten light
years tall and spews radiation much hotter than common fire. The greater Eagle
Nebula, M16, is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and dust inside of which is a growing cavity
filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an open cluster of stars. The image
in scientifically re-assigned colors was released in 2005 as
part of the fifteenth
anniversary celebration of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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