The Pillars of Creation

The Pillars of Creations is the descriptive definition for the Eagle Nebula.

History
In April 1995, NASA amalgamated 32 individual Hubble Space Telescope photographs to produce the image of the Pillars of Creation.

Description
The image itself shows immense clouds of interstellar gas and dust several light years along, which is formed by high ultraviolet radiation from nearby stars. This is where the formation of stars is happening.

Fields of Physics

 * Astrophysics
 * Optical astronomy