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
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)
A higher-resolution Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pillars of Creation, taken in 2014 as a tribute to the original photograph
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,
Pillars of Creation
…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 light-years (2,000–2,100 pc) from Earth. These elephant…
Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396A) in the emission nebulae IC 1396.