News tagged with eagle nebula

Eagle Nebula: A new view of an icon

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Eagle Nebula as never seen before. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope's 'Pillars of Creation' image of the Eagle Nebula became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Now, ...

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Help! My stars are leaking!

Star clusters are wonderful test beds for theories of stellar formation and evolution. One of the key roles they play is to help astronomers understand the distribution of stellar masses as stars form (in ...

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created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

'Elephant trunks' in space

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of a star-forming cloud of dust and gas, called Sh2-284, located in the constellation of Monoceros. Lining up along ...

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created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Stellar Powerhouses in the Eagle Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- A spectacular section of the well-known Eagle Nebula has been targeted by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This collection of dazzling stars is called NGC 6611, an open star cluster that ...

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created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

An Eagle of Cosmic Proportions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today ESO has released a new and stunning image of the sky around the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant star clusters carve out monster columns of dust and gas.

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created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Pillars of Creation formed in the shadows

Research by astronomers at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies suggests that shadows hold the key to how giant star-forming structures like the famous "Pillars of Creation" take shape.

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created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0