Nebula
Eagle Nebula
Emission nebula with cluster · M16
Home of the Pillars of Creation
A young open cluster embedded in glowing hydrogen gas. Hubble's 1995 image of its towering dust columns — the Pillars of Creation — became one of the most famous astronomy images ever taken.
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Key facts
Distance
~5,700 light-years
Size
~70 × 55 light-years
Apparent mag.
+6.0
Did you know
- The tallest pillar is about 4 light-years long.
- New stars are forming inside the pillars.
- JWST revisited the pillars in infrared in 2022.
