Pillars of Creation
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
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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
- 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
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9544a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:40:24.624094
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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