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Glowing Eagle
23 January 2012
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Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Hill, Motte, HOBYS Key Programme Consortium; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger
A glowing eagle soars upward in this far-infrared image of the Eagle Nebula from ESA’s Herschel Telescope.
Ink Blobs
21 March 2011
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Credit: NASA, ESA
Ink blobs blot out the glow of the surrounding nebula in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Ink Smears
06 December 2010
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Dark inky clouds smear the cosmic canvas of the Eagle Nebula in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
The Eagle
03 June 2010
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Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
This eagle is a nursery for new stars. In this dramatic image from the Hubble Space Telescope taken in 1995, the baby stars are being born from eggs, small pockets of gas and dust. These columns of dust, like stalagmites in a cave are light years long. The Eagle Nebula, or M-16, is about 7,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, the Serpent.
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