A handout image captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showing the famous "Pillars Of Creation", a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image surpassing the quality of the well-known 1995 image. The towering pillars are about five light-years tall. – AFP/NASA
One of the most famous images in astronomy is the “Pillars Of Creation”, but a new version of it reveals that it could also be called “Pillars Of Destruction”.
The images depict three towering columns of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery about 6,500 light-years away from Earth. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars, which are made of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust.
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