¿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2021 March 7 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Pillars of the Eagle Nebula in Infrared Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]Hubble, [6]HLA; Processing: [7]Luis Romero Explanation: Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. Gravitationally contracting in [8]pillars of dense gas and dust, the intense radiation of these newly-formed bright stars is causing surrounding material to boil away. [9]This image, taken with the [10]Hubble Space Telescope in near [11]infrared light, allows the viewer to [12]see through much of the thick dust that makes [13]the pillars opaque [14]in visible light. The [15]giant structures are [16]light years in length and dubbed informally the [17]Pillars of Creation. Associated with the [18]open star cluster [19]M16, the Eagle Nebula lies about 6,500 [20]light years away. The [21]Eagle Nebula is an easy target for small telescopes in a nebula-rich part of the sky toward the [22]split constellation [23]Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake). Tomorrow's picture: a comet's red tail __________________________________________________________________ [24]< | [25]Archive | [26]Submissions | [27]Index | [28]Search | [29]Calendar | [30]RSS | [31]Education | [32]About APOD | [33]Discuss | [34]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [35]Robert Nemiroff ([36]MTU) & [37]Jerry Bonnell ([38]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [39]Specific rights apply. [40]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [41]ASD at [42]NASA / [43]GSFC & [44]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2103/M16Ir_HubbleRomero_2786.jpg 3. https://www.nasa.gov/ 4. http://www.esa.int/ 5. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html 6. https://hla.stsci.edu/ 7. http://astrophotographysirius.com/resources.htm 8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150107.html 9. http://astrophotographysirius.com/m16.htm 10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021124.html 11. https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves 12. https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/index.php/2016/09/13/hubble-false-color/ 13. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/3D_data_visualisation_of_the_Pillars_of_Creation.webm 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160424.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150107.html 16. http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/open_clusters.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030921.html 20. http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140216.html 22. https://blogmais.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/imagem_ht_07-04-23.jpg?w=256&h=258 23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpens 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210306.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 28. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 32. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 33. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210307 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210308.html 35. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 36. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 37. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 38. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 39. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 40. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 41. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 42. https://www.nasa.gov/ 43. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 44. http://www.mtu.edu/