New view of the Pillars of Creation visible
esahubble_heic1501a January 5th, 2015
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebulas Pillars of Creation. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-coloured glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-coloured elephants trunks of the nebulas famous pillars. The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. With these new images comes better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1501a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2
- Subject Name
- Eagle Nebula, M 16, Messier 16
- Credits
- NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
- Release Date
- 2015-01-05T23:15:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sii, H-alpha, Oiii
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 657, 502
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 274.719656784, -13.8394365494
- Reference Dimension
- 6780.0, 7071.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3390.0, 3535.0
- Scale
- -1.11332810765e-05, 1.11332810765e-05
- Rotation
- 34.980000000000011
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- 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
- heic1501a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1501a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2014-12-11T11:11:37+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
