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Description	English: This image of the Pillars of Creation, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), shows compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference. It lies within the Eagle Nebula, which is also known as Messier 16 (M16). The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky. Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ground (as seen from above). The scale bar is labeled in light-years, which is the distance that light travels in one Earth-year. (It takes 2 years for light to travel a distance equal to the length of the scale bar.) One light-year is equal to about 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers. The field of view shown in this image is approximately 8 light-years across. This image shows near-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colors. The color key shows which NIRCam filters were used when collecting the light. The color of each filter name is the visible light color used to represent the infrared light that passes through that filter. Read a full description of the image.
Date	19 October 2022 (upload date)
Source	Pillars of Creation (NIRCam Compass Image)
Author	SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
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Image title	This image of the Pillars of Creation, captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), shows compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for reference. It lies within the Eagle Nebula, which is also known as Messier 16 (M16).The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky. Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ground (as seen from above).The scale bar is labeled in light-years, which is the distance that light travels in one Earth-year. (It takes 2 years for light to travel a distance equal to the length of the scale bar.) One light-year is equal to about 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers. The field of view shown in this image is approximately 8 light-years across.This image shows near-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colors. The color key shows which NIRCam filters were used when collecting the light. The color of each filter name is the visible light color used to represent the infrared light that passes through that filter.
Copyright holder	Public
Short title	Pillars of Creation (NIRCam Compass Image)
Credit/Provider	NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Source	STScI
Usage terms	https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
Date and time of data generation	19 October 2022
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Image width	8,423 px
Image height	17,098 px
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Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	25 dpi
Vertical resolution	25 dpi
Contact information	outreach@stsci.edu https://www.stsci.edu/ 3700 San Martin Drive Baltimore, MD, 21218 USA 410-338-4444
Keywords	M16 Eagle Nebula NGC 6611
Date and time of digitizing	10:10, 30 August 2022
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Date metadata was last modified	08:48, 21 October 2022
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