Pillars of Creation M16 Eagle Nebula Space Photo Jigsaw Puzzle
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This NASA Hubble Telescope photo reveals details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16. The ghostly bluish haze around the dense edges of the pillars is material getting heated up and evaporating away into space.