by APOD Robot » Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:06 am
The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
Explanation: 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
above 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
above 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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