Thursday, January 8, 2015

Hubble Takes a new Photo of the Pillars of Creation





The original image, taken in 1995 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, revealed three towering "elephant trunks" of gas and dust that are in the process of forming new stars. The columns are also being sculpted and eroded by winds from nearby young star.



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