Pillars of Creation

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esahubble_opo9544a January 5th, 2015

Credit: Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University), and NASA/ESA

Undersea coral? Enchanted castles? Space serpents? 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.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9544a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Eagle Nebula Messier 16
Subject - Milky Way
Nebula > Type > Star Formation
Esahubble_opo9544a_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 18h 18m 50.6s
DEC = -13° 49’ 51.8”
Orientation
North is 42.3° CCW
Field of View
2.5 x 2.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Serpens

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (Sii) -
Green Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (H-alpha) -
Blue Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (Oiii) -
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ID
opo9544a
Subject Category
B.4.1.2  
Subject Name
Eagle Nebula, Messier 16
Credits
Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University), and NASA/ESA
Release Date
2015-01-05T23:15:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9544a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
Sii, H-alpha, Oiii
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
274.7109522, -13.8310432
Reference Dimension
1518.0, 1497.0
Reference Pixel
760.0, 749.5
Scale
2.75794568195e-05, 2.75538126e-05
Rotation
42.3
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
WCS info from NASA/Hubble
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9544a
Metadata Date
2019-10-07T11:40:24.624094
Metadata Version
1.1
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