Above and Beyond: The Eagle Nebula in Visible and Infrared Light

 

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach.

 

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA, ESA, and STScI except:

 

·       Ground-based image of Carina Nebula © R. Gendler, J.-E. Ovaldsen, C. Feron, and C. Thone

·       Twinkling star movie courtesy of Applied Optics Group (Imperial College), William Herschel Telescope

·       Gran Telescopio Canarias photo courtesy of Victor R. Ruiz

·       M51 image from Gran Telescopio Canarias courtesy of IAC/GTC

·       Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory

 

Written by Vanessa Thomas and John Stoke

Designed by Marc Lussier and John Godfrey 

Music courtesy of Associated Production Music

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 Brownish columns on a blue background. Text, Hubble image of Eagle Nebula M16. Visible Light. In a region of the Eagle Nebula, stars are being forged within towering pillars of dust and gas light-years tall. 

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 Stars shine against a black background. Text, Hubble image of Eagle Nebula M16 Infrared Light. Hubble's infrared view pierces through the dust to reveal stars embedded within the pillars and countless others lying in the distance. 

Numerous stars shine bright white and gold around the cloudlike brown pillars.