Monthly Archives: April 2015

Montage Mosaics The Pillars Of Creation!

Posted on April 30, 2015 by astrocompute

The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (M16) remain one of the iconic images of the Hubble Space Telescope. Three pillars rise from a molecular cloud into an enormous HII region, powered by the massive young cluster NGC 6611. … Continue reading →

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