Gas Pillars in M16 - Eagle Nebula
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These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like stalagmites from the floor of a cavern. They are part of the Eagle Nebula (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of of fuzzy objects that aren't comets)
NASA Identifier: s95-19955
- Pillars of Creation - Wikipedia
- Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16): Pillars of Creation in a Star ...
- The Pillars Of Creation Haven't Been Destroyed, After All - Forbes
- Pillars of Creation - ESA/Hubble
- APOD: 2007 February 18 - M16: Pillars of Creation - NASA
- How Quickly Are The Pillars Of Creation Being Destroyed? - Forbes
- NASA's Stunning Pillars of Creation Takes Space Photography to ...
- NASA published a 'haunting portrait' of Pillars of Creation for ... - ABC
- Eagle Nebula and Pillars of Creation - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
- What Makes the 'Pillars of Creation' So Memorable? - Pacific Standard
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