New view of the Pillars of Creation infrared
esahubble_heic1501b 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 infrared light, allowing it to pierce through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar but just as amazing view of the pillars. In this ethereal view the entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The ghostly outlines of the pillars seem much more delicate, and are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze. Hubble also captured the pillars in visible light.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1501b
- 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/heic1501b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Yellow, Cyan
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 1100
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 274.717058739, -13.8347924699
- Reference Dimension
- 3249.0, 3045.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1624.0, 1522.0
- Scale
- -2.2249004567e-05, 2.2249004567e-05
- Rotation
- 35.060000000000052
- 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
- heic1501b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1501b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2014-11-25T09:29:19-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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