NASA. LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. NASA's Hubble Space Telescop - Lot 277

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NASA. LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. NASA's Hubble Space Telescop - Lot 277
NASA. LARGE FORMAT. DEEP SPACE. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, originally photographed in 1995, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image. Astronomers combined several exposures from the Hubble telescope to create this wider view. The imposing pillars are about 5 light-years tall. The dark, finger-like feature in the lower right could be a smaller version of the giant pillars. This new image was taken by Hubble’s versatile and highly precise Wide Field Camera 3. The pillars are bathed in the intense ultraviolet light of a group of young, massive stars located at the top of the image. Trails of gas can be seen escaping from the pillars as the intense radiation heats them and causes them to evaporate into space. The denser regions of the pillars cast shadows on the material beneath them due to the powerful radiation. Stars are being born deep within the pillars, which consist of cold hydrogen gas and dust. The pillars are part of a small region of the Eagle Nebula, a vast star-forming region located 6,500 light-years from Earth. The colors in the image highlight the emission from several chemical elements. Oxygen emission is blue, sulfur is orange, and hydrogen and nitrogen are green. A number of Herbig-Haro jets have noticeably elongated during the nearly 20-year interval between the two Hubble images. 2014–2015. Vintage chromogenic print. Numbered in the front margin. Caption on a label on the back. 60.9 × 60.9 cm with margins.
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