7000 years of light from Earth, in the Eagle Nebula, are giant pillars of gas and dust where stars are born. Lighten them glowing oxygen, hydrogen and sulfur. These structures are constantly being carved and changed by the radiation emerging young stars within and surrounding the wind Pillars of old stars. Soon – barely a few million years – a monstrous columns vanish completely.
Such places are common in space, but these proved to be extremely photogenic. However, the equipment, which had the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, is today a historical monument. In 2009, the telescope was installed a new device, the Wide Field Camera 3. It gave the opportunity to do much better and sharper pictures in visible light. It’s just that the equipment was made recently launched a new photo Pillars of Creation. Lord. Gentlemen. Here it is:
NASA, ESA / Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
What has changed? First of all, the same pillars. Although 20 years in the scale of the cosmos is the moment, this precise comparison of the old and new images allows us to see changes in these. New photo is sharper, has better contrast and colors.
But now that we’re back to the Pillars, then why not look at them differently? The Hubble Space Telescope can also observe the cosmos in infrared rays – the band can look right through the cloud of gas and dust to see what is going on inside. And there are new stars of light that slowly destroy the Pillars of Creation tearing it from the inside.
The photo also shows the infrared background Pillars full of stars and their internal structure – you can see that the upper part of each of them are made of gas and dust with a very high density.
NASA, ESA / Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
It is yet to see the film, which tells the story of the creation of pictures and shows the differences between the old and new photographs. I especially recommend the passage, in which you can see on the location of the Pillars of the Milky Way, which makes us realize how vast is our galaxy:
For the most persistent – NASA on this page you can find links to the original photos . Some of them have 450 MB, so – something like that – do not have included them here
The text comes from blog Crazy Science
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