Pillars of Creation
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title:
Pillars of Creation
text:
Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light-years from Earth. These elephant trunks had been discovered by John Charles Duncan in 1920 on a plate made with the Mount Wilson Observatory 60-inch telescope.
They are so named because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by the light from nearby stars that h
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Astrophotograph by the Hubble Space Telescope
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation
date created:
2007-01-10T16:36:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T06:02:21Z
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