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NASA and ESA’s incredible view of the ‘Pillars of Creation’, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope, has become one of the most iconic sights of our cosmos since it was first captured in 1995.
However, the most recent snapshot of structure agencies in the Eagle Nebula has left us speechless.
It displays the radiant glow of the pillars in infrared light, and you can see infrared light passing through dust and gas, giving the pillars a spectacular bluish shade.
(NASA, ESA / Hubble and the Hubble Heritage team)
The 1995 image of the pillars, a composite of three different images compiled in visible light, shows the pillars located in the Eagle Nebula spewing cold hydrogen gas and cosmic dust.
The 1995 image of the pillars. (NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester, and P. Scowen (Arizona State University))
The new infrared version is not the first time that images of this cosmic structure have been reviewed. In 2015, astronomers put together a more detailed image captured in visible light.
(NASA, ESA / Hubble and the Hubble Heritage team)
First discovered in 1745 by the Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, the Eagle Nebula is located about 7,000 light years from Earth, a star nursery in the constellation Serpens.
Four or five light-years across, the pillar structure is immense, though it’s only a relatively small structure compared to the general nebula, which spans a staggering 70 by 55 light-years.
This article was originally published by Futurism. Read the original article.
