Crab Nebula Timelapse

Soar into the Eagle Nebula 🦅 This part of the nebula is called the Pillars of Creation. Giant columns of cold gas are bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars. The Pillars of Creation are about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens. Music credit: “Full Circle,” David Bramfitt [ASCAP], Open Note [ASCAP], Universal Production Music Video credits: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI); Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA),

The Eagle Nebula Combining almost opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, this composite of the Herschel in far-infrared and XMM-Newton’s X-ray images shows how the hot young stars detected by the X-ray observations are sculpting and interacting with the surrounding ultra-cool gas and dust, which, at only a few degrees above absolute zero, is the critical material for star formation itself. Both wavelengths would be blocked by Earth’s atmosphere, so are critical to our understanding of th