Revisiting The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

Revisiting The Pillars of Creation | Hubble

Hubblecast 82: The NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. This time Hubble has not just one image for us, but two: as well as the new visible-light image the telescope used infrared light to produce a second breathtaking picture of the region. Between them these images show the pillars in more detail than ever before. In this Hubblecast we explore the different ways in which Hubble, and other telescopes, have captured this iconic object.

Directed by: Georgia Bladon

Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser

Written by: Georgia Bladon and Nicky Guttridge

Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa

Images: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University), ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, M. McCaughrean & M. Andersen (AIP)

Video: NASA, European Space Agency/Hubble 

Animations: Martin Kornmesser, Luis Calcada, NASA, ESA/Hubble 

Music: Toomas Erm (European Southern Observatory)

Web and technical support: Mathias Andre and Raquel Yumi Shida

Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Duration: 6 minutes

Release Date: January 5, 2015

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