The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating.

As almighty starlight whittles away these
cool cosmic mountains, the
statuesque pillars that remain
might be imagined as mythical beasts.

Pictured above is one of several striking
dust pillars of the
Eagle Nebula
that might be described as a gigantic alien
fairy.

that fairy, however, is ten
light years tall and spews radiation much hotter

The greater Eagle Nebula, M16,
is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and
dust inside of which is a growing
cavity filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an
open cluster of stars.

The above image in scientifically re-assigned colors was

released
as part of the
fifteenth anniversary celebration of the
launch of the
Hubble Space Telescope.

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