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Undersea corral? 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.

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English: Undersea corral? 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. They are part of the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 - the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" objects that aren't comets), a nearby star-forming region 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
Date 2 November 1995 (upload date)
Source Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16): Pillars of Creation in a Star-Forming Region
Author NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
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Emission Nebulas; Nebulas

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