Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Eagle nebula  ·  M 16  ·  NGC 6611
Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop), Diego Cartes
Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop)
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Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop)

Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop), Diego Cartes
Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop)
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Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop)

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"Pillars of Creation" is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, specifically the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light years from Earth. They are so named because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by the light from nearby stars that have recently formed.(Wikipedia)

This narrowband image was made from data captured using the HA, SII and OIII filters, assigned using the Hubble (SHO) Palette, which allows to notice variations in the intensity of color in the image, which correspond to different concentrations of those elements.

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  • Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop), Diego Cartes
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Messier 16 and the Eagle/Star Queen Nebula (Hubble Palette crop), Diego Cartes