Posted on Dec 6, 2020
APOD: 2020 December 6 - M16: Pillars of Star Creation
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "M16: Pillars of Star Creation." This one does in fact reside in a frame on a wall in our home. I first knew it by its original name "Pillars of Creation." I call it 'God's Wallpaper.' The Eagle Nebula (it contains the Pillars) is part of a diffuse emission nebula of ionized hydrogen, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of active current star formation is about 5700 light-years distant in the constellation Serpens.
APOD: 2020 December 6 - M16: Pillars of Star Creation
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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Sunday, December 6, 2020 entitled "M16: Pillars of Star Creation."
Image: M16 - Pillars of Star Creation - Image Credit - NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope, J. Hester, P. Scowen (ASU)
It is noteworthy that this image of God's creation of stars in the Eagle Nebula from 'about 7,000' years ago has been identified as a star creation process.
I tried to find a majestic tune to post for this image
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'Explanation: These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing image of the inside of the Eagle Nebula, 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 have been imaged more recently in infrared light by Hubble, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and ESA's Herschel Space Observatory -- showing new detail."
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Image: M16 - Pillars of Star Creation - Image Credit - NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope, J. Hester, P. Scowen (ASU)
It is noteworthy that this image of God's creation of stars in the Eagle Nebula from 'about 7,000' years ago has been identified as a star creation process.
I tried to find a majestic tune to post for this image
APOD background
'Explanation: These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing image of the inside of the Eagle Nebula, 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 have been imaged more recently in infrared light by Hubble, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and ESA's Herschel Space Observatory -- showing new detail."
Alliance - Pillars of Creation [Epic Inspirational Orchestral]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzS2ju1wh3I
FYI Maj Robert Thornton Lt Col Charlie Brown COL Mikel J. Burroughs Sgt (Join to see) PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SGT Denny Espinosa Sgt Vance Bonds MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. TSgt David L. SPC Nancy GreenePO2 (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SPC Margaret Higgins Maj Marty Hogan SMSgt David A Asbury SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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Good "Sunday" Morning my very good friend and astronomy enthusiast Maj William W. 'Bill' Price - thanks for sharing the APOD Titled: "M16: Pillars of Star Creation." Sorry for being AWOL every morning, but I'm still not getting email notifications, so I have to get lucky going through "My Feed" each day or checking the "Notification Bell" on my profile - I got lucky today with your post Bill. Have a great day my friend...
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