#messier16

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Messier 16 Credit: Geoff Chester

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Eagle Nebula (M16/NGC6611) in Serpens - July 2024 Photo by Turricula 477x10" exposure(80 min) Stacked and Stretched in Siril Color balancing, noise reduction in Photoshop

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Though this towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust is only a small portion of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16), it is no less majestic in appearance for it. The pillar rises 9.5 light-years tall and is 7,000 light-years away from Earth. This latest Hubble view uses new processing techniques and is part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll

[johnlyngfr]

The “Pillars of Creation” were popularized by the Hubble Space Telescope. I also imagine a pink silhouette sitting on a throne, with the whimsical name: “The Star Queen”. This celestial jewel is a nearby star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy. I photographed the Pillars of Creation from my balcony in Strasbourg France in July 2022. #eaglenebula #messier16 #pillarsofcreation #starqueen #messierobjects #astrophotography #astrophotographiefrance #astronomy #astronomie #astronomiefrance #astronomiealsace (at Strasbourg, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgcgE-QM2lu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[johnlyngfr]

The “Star Queen” and the “Pillars of Creation”, cataloged as NGC 6611. When the Hubble Space Telescope returned its photos of NGC 6611 they referred to the column-shaped structures as the “Pillars of Creation” because it is a mysterious star-forming region. In the centre of the nebula, there appears the shape of a slender pink figure on a chair (sideways in this photo). This is the “Star Queen” on her throne. I photographed this from my terrace in Bordeaux France, July 2020. #starqueen #pillarsofcreation #ngc6611 #messier16 #eaglenebula (at Bordeaux, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCiK6dHed-/?igshid=1u354ujz3sp6w