Zoom into The Pillars of Creation | NASA Hubble

 Zoom into The Pillars of Creation | NASA Hubble

Hubble’s legendary “Pillars of Creation” are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shielding material beneath them from the powerful radiation.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Acknowledgment: NASA, European Space Agency, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), the Digitized Sky Survey ((DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO), T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA/NSF) and B.A. Wolpa (NOAO/AURA/NSF), and A. Fujii

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: January 14, 2015

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