Gas Pillars in M16 - Eagle Nebula
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These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like stalagmites from the floor of a cavern. They are part of the Eagle Nebula (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of of fuzzy objects that aren't comets)
NASA Identifier: s95-19955
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2000 - 2020
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