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Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars. At each pillars’ end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density material to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed. The Eagle Nebula, associated with the open star cluster M16, lies about 7000 light years away. The pillars of creation were imaged again in 2007 by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light, leading to the conjecture that the pillars may already have been destroyed by a local supernova, but light from that event has yet to reach the Earth. Be Honest: Have you seen this image before?
中文翻譯:
新生恆星正喺老鷹星雲中形成。呢張影像係1995年由哈勃太空望遠鏡拍攝，展示咗蒸發氣體球體（EVG）從分子氫氣和塵埃嘅柱子中顯現出嚟。呢啲巨型柱子長達數光年，內部氣體密度極高，會因重力收縮而形成恆星。喺每根柱子嘅末端，亮星嘅強烈輻射令稀薄嘅物質蒸發，將密集嘅EGG星際育嬰室暴露出嚟。老鷹星雲同開放星團M16相關，距離地球約7000光年。柱子創造（Pillars of Creation）喺2007年透過斯皮策太空望遠鏡用紅外光再度成像，令科學家推測呢啲柱子可能已經被附近超新星摧毀，但該事件發出的光線尚未到達地球。
#老鷹星雲 #哈勃太空望遠鏡 #恆星形成 #蒸發氣體球體 #柱子創造 #太空探索 #宇宙之美 #M16 #紅外成像 #科學探索 #星際育嬰室
來源:NASA每日圖片
