Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2021 September 9
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                                 M16 Cose Up
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Martin Pugh

   Explanation: A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by
   natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, [5]M16 is also known as The Eagle
   Nebula. [6]This beautifully detailed image of the region adopts the
   colorful Hubble palette and includes [7]cosmic sculptures made famous
   in Hubble Space Telescope close-ups of the starforming complex.
   Described as elephant trunks or [8]Pillars of Creation, dense, dusty
   columns rising near the center are light-years in length but are
   gravitationally contracting to form stars. Energetic radiation from the
   cluster stars erodes material near the tips, eventually exposing the
   embedded new stars. Extending from the ridge of bright emission left of
   center is another dusty starforming column known as the [9]Fairy of
   Eagle Nebula. M16 lies about 7,000 light-years away, an easy target for
   binoculars or small telescopes in a [10]nebula rich part of the sky
   toward the split constellation [11]Serpens Cauda (the tail of the
   snake).

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References

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   4. https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/about
   5. http://messier.seds.org/m/m016.html
   6. https://www.martinpughastrophotography.space/nebulae#/m16/
   7. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eagle_Nebula_4xHubble_WikiSky.jpg
   8. https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1995/news-1995-44.html
   9. https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2005/12/1693-Image.html
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130712.html
  11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpens
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