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The Pillars of Creation—visible & infrared comparison | Hubble

The Pillars of Creation—visible and infrared comparison | Hubble


This image compares two views of the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation captured by Hubble. On the left the pillars are 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 right image is taken in infrared light, which penetrates much of the obscuring dust and gas and unveils a more unfamiliar view of the pillars.


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

Release Date: January 5, 2015


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