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NASA’s Hubble space telescope has taken its fair share of amazing photos. Perhaps one of the most iconic, though, is its capture of Hubble’s Pillars of Creation photo in 1995. The photo, which ...
The name is based on a phrase used by Charles Spurgeon in his 1857 sermon "The Condescension of Christ": [9] In calling the Hubble's spectacular new image of the Eagle Nebula the Pillars of Creation, NASA scientists were tapping a rich symbolic tradition with centuries of meaning, bringing it into the modern age. As much as we associate pillars ...
Images produced by Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen using the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 greatly improved scientific understanding of processes inside the nebula. One of these became famous as the " Pillars of Creation ", depicting a large region of star formation.
Original – NASA's version of 2014 HD Full res version For reference, this FP is what NASA saw in 1995 Reason no comment Articles in which this image appears Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out Creator NASA. Support as nominator – Nergaal 23:55, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hubble first imaged the Pillars of Creation in 1995 (see below), but the technology at the time revealed only a fraction of the stars in the region.
The pillars shown in the image are 5 light-years tall, which means that the distance from one end to the other is roughly 300,000 times as far away as Earth is from the sun.
19 April 1995 Charles Porter IV: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States [s 2] [s 6] [s 7] Giant Iceberg: 1995 Dr. Hans Oerter Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica [s 2] Pillars of Creation: 1995 Hubble Space Telescope / NASA: Low Earth orbit: Wide field and planetary camera The photograph depicts a region of star formation. [76] [s 3] [s 4]
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