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Hubble: Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula « Previous | |Next »
December 22, 2012

This object is a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula:

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Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 2:48 PM |