New Hubble image of the Pillars of Creation

[strutsinaction]

Quoted from the Hubble site:

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-coloured glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-coloured elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars.

Details here:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1501a/

Enjoy!

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John

[Daniel-K]

ive seen better from members on here  

[symesie04]

Tis a gorgeous sight. Usually the names given to DSO stuff really has no relation to the object whatsoever, but i have to say whoever named those the Pillars of Creation was so on track.

[bingevader]

Tis a gorgeous sight. Usually the names given to DSO stuff really has no relation to the object whatsoever, but i have to say whoever named those the Pillars of Creation was so on track.

I have to agree, nicely put.

[Grotemobile]

Wow. Looks nearly a 3D image.

Hubble just gets better.Be shame,  

when it stops working.

[Vega]

Wow. Looks nearly a 3D image.

What a great idea! They should release a 3D version

[DaveS]

Diffraction Spikes, Argh!

[chris285]

Stunning image from probably the greatest scientific tool ever made in my opinion

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[chops]

Thanks for the post; there's a little bit more detail on new scientist, including the attribution of the colour scheme, which seems to suggest it was one of their early uses of it: "Not only has the image itself been used in everything from movies to bedsheets, but even its colour scheme – ionised oxygen in blue, ionised hydrogen in green, and ionised sulphur in red - has been replicated in countless astronomical images since."

Plus, fantastic IR image, which shows the star field too: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26748-hubbles-new-view-of-iconic-pillars-of-creation.html#.VLDiEtogGK1