June 2015
Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
.../Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team This image shows the Eagle Nebula’s pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-...cosmic dust, and the rust-coloured elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars. The dust and gas in the pillars is...
08 January 2023
Stars in Your Hand: A Guide to 3D Printing the Cosmos
... an introduction to 3D techniques applied to astronomical data (including the famous ‘Pillars of Creation’ image from the Eagle Nebula), the authors discuss the computer software and printing aspects. In general, the approach is light - it’s a small...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... iconic Hubble image, ‘Pillars of Creation’, within the Eagle Nebula showing the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing...cosmic dust, and the rust-coloured elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars. About the author Charles Simpson is a PhD...
28 July 2015
Yale’s Jeffrey Kenny on cosmic wind in the NGC 4921 galaxy
... formations were compared by Astronomy.com to Hubble’s famous “Pillars of Creation” (showing columns of dust and gas in the Eagle Nebula), but are 1000 times larger. They are evidence of the destructive nature of cosmic wind, also known...
