FRANCE: New images provide the first complete 3-D view of the iconic Pillars of Creation — and suggest that the glorious protrusions may be around for only another 3 million years.
The new images reveal never-before-seen stars in the thick, fingerlike gas clouds, as well as new details about their orientation in space. You can get a close look at the formation in a new video of the Pillars of Creation.
The Pillars gained worldwide fame when they were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. In 2014, Hubble used its updated hardware to produce even higher definition images of the region.
These cosmic protrusions are composed of dust and gas, and are part of a larger region known as the Eagle Nebula — a fertile region of new star formation about 7,000 light-years away. When hot and massive new stars begin burning in gas clouds like the Eagle Nebula, they emit strong stellar winds and powerful waves of radiation that disperse much of the gas that surrounds them.
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