Eagle Nebula - Pillars of Creation

M-16 the Eagle Nebula & Fairy Nebula a.k.a. the Pillars of Creation by: Matt Hughes Cropped rotated mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

The Fairy Nebula M-16 Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation by Wolfgang Promter cropped mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

M-16 the Eagle Nebula cropped mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

"Eagle Nebula - Messier 16" by Andreas Glassér Eagle Nebula with its star-forming and well-known region of heated gas and dust that the Hubble Telescope made known as the Pillars of Creation. The photo was taken over a week with one hour per night as M16 is around 10 degrees latitude from my balcony. I had to fight against a lot... #fstoppers

A HaOIII narrowband image of the Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16, M16, or NGC 6611). The Eagle Nebula is part of a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of active current star formation is about 7,000 light-years from Earth. A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula in the north-eastern part is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers long. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and…