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                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                               2020 December 6
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                        M16: Pillars of Star Creation
   Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]Hubble Space Telescope, J. Hester, P.
                               Scowen ([6]ASU)

   Explanation: These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are
   creating stars. [7]This pillar-capturing image of the inside of the
   Eagle Nebula, taken with the [8]Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows
   [9]evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of
   molecular [10]hydrogen gas and [11]dust. The [12]giant pillars are
   [13]light years in length and are so dense that interior gas
   [14]contracts gravitationally to form [15]stars. At each [16]pillars'
   end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density
   material to boil away, leaving [17]stellar nurseries of dense [18]EGGs
   exposed. The [19]Eagle Nebula, associated with the [20]open star
   cluster [21]M16, lies about 7000 [22]light years away. The [23]pillars
   of creation have been imaged more recently in [24]infrared light by
   [25]Hubble, NASA's [26]Spitzer Space Telescope, and [27]ESA's
   [28]Herschel Space Observatory -- [29]showing new [30]detail.

               Be Honest: [31]Have you seen this image before?
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