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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, jimwgram
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

M16 - The Eagle Nebula, jimwgram
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M16 - The Eagle Nebula

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Nearly 7000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens, the Eagle Nebula stretches its wings of hydrogen and dust across an area spanning more than 70 X 55 light years. Located in an inner arm of our galaxy known as the Sagittarius-Carina Arm, the nebula is an intense region where new stars are in active formation. One of the most distinctive parts of the Eagle Nebula are the three massive columns of gas and dust rising up as a stellar nursery famously photographed by the Hubble telescope in 1995, which Hubble astronomers dubbed "The Pillars of Creation".

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation

This image was captured over the course of three nights, in over six hours of total imaging time, with some frustrating suboptimal guiding and tracking issues. This is a stack of 151 two-minute subs that seemed good enough, processed in Siril and tweaked in PS.

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M16 - The Eagle Nebula, jimwgram