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Styles: Lagoon Nebula, Pillars of Creation
The Lagoon Nebula To celebrate its 28th Anniversay in Space, the ESA/Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colorful image of the Lagoon Nebula. The whole Nebula is about 4,000 light-years away, an incredible 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall. This image shows only a small part of this turbulent star-formation region. At the center of this picture, a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than Earth's sun is blasting powerful ultra-violet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantast landscape of ridges, cavities and mountains, all made of gas and dust.
Pillars of Creation Discoverd in 1745 by the Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, the Eagle Nebula is located 7,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. The Pillars of Creation are part of an active star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula and hibde many newborn stars in its columns. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephant's trunk of the nebulas famous pillars.
