Elephant trunk (astronomy)
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Elephant trunks are a type of interstellar matter formations found in molecular clouds. They are located in the neighborhood of massive O type and B type stars, which, through their intense radiation,
The "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula.
Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A) in the emission nebulae IC 1396.
Pillars of Creation
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Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that depicts elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula of the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 lig
Elephant trunk (astronomy)
…observations. They have determined that elephant trunks have cold cores (20 K) surrounded by warm gas (60 K) with an outer hot shell (250-320 K). The Pillars of Creation are the most famous example of astronomic elephant trunks. NASA was able to produce a picture of this formation by compositing multiple images taken…
The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995
Closer view of one pillar
The Pillars of Creation within the Eagle Nebula (center of photo, overlaid with the original HST image)