Pan over The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

Pan over The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

This video pans over a NASA/European Space Agency 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-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored 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.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team

Duration: 26 seconds

Release Date: January 5, 2015

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