Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula is a photograph by Marco Oliveira which was uploaded on January 21st, 2015.
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Title
Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula
Artist
Marco Oliveira
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Stellar Spire In The Eagle Nebula
Image Credits: Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Retouching by Marco Oliveira
Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 57 trillion miles high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.
Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighborhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar.
The dominant colors in the image were produced by gas energized by the star cluster's powerful ultraviolet light. The blue color at the top is from glowing oxygen. The red color in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen. The Eagle Nebula image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
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January 21st, 2015
