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W5: Pillars of Star Formation

By |2025-06-23T12:44:35-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, later NEOWISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely [...]

M16: Pillars of Star Creation

By |2024-10-22T09:09:09-04:00October 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing picture of the Eagle Nebula combines visible light exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope with infrared images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope to highlight evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen [...]

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