Posted on Sep 9, 2021

APOD: 2021 September 9 - M16 Close Up

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "M16 Close Up." M16 is a starforming nebula, a star cluster embedded in a giant cloud of interstellar gas and dust. The cluster is also referred to as NGC 6611, the nebula as IC 4703. In 1745, Philippe Loys de Chéseaux, describes only the cluster when recording his discovery of M16. In 1764, Charles Messier mentions that the cluster appeared "enmeshed in a faint glow", probably the first suggestion of the nebula. It wasn't until 1908 that the nebula received its designation as IC 4703.

Martin Pugh is a retired Navy guy who emigrated to Australia in 2005 to set up his own remote imaging, data subscription and telescope hosting business. He is a regular contributor to APOD (going back to 2006!), and his latest image doesn't disappoint. M16 (aka the Eagle Nebula and Pillars of Creation) is one of my favorites. It lies 7,000 light years away in the constellation Serpens Cauda. To the left of the Pillars is the Fairy Nebula (aka Star Queen Nebula). What else does your imagination reveal to you?

APOD: 2021 September 9 - M16 Close Up

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Robin Trower - Day Of The Eagle - 3/15/1975 - Winterland (Official)

Robin Trower - Day Of The EagleRecorded Live: 3/15/1975 - Winterland - San Francisco, CAMore Robin Trower at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.comSubscribe ...

Thank you my space exploration and NASA photography advocate friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "M16 Close Up.

Image: M16 Close Up - Image Credit & Copyright - Martin Pugh

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Explanation: A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, M16 is also known as The Eagle Nebula. This beautifully detailed image of the region adopts the colorful Hubble palette and includes cosmic sculptures made famous in Hubble Space Telescope close-ups of the starforming complex. Described as elephant trunks or Pillars of Creation, dense, dusty columns rising near the center are light-years in length but are gravitationally contracting to form stars. Energetic radiation from the cluster stars erodes material near the tips, eventually exposing the embedded new stars. Extending from the ridge of bright emission left of center is another dusty starforming column known as the Fairy of Eagle Nebula. M16 lies about 7,000 light-years away, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).

Robin Trower - Day Of The Eagle - 3/15/1975 - Winterland (Official)
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