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  • Released Thursday, May 1, 2014
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
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This visible light image of the pillars was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Each pillar is several light-years in length.

This visible light image of the pillars was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Each pillar is several light-years in length.

In near infrared light, new stars can be seen at the tip of the center and leftmost pillars. The star on the left is 4-5X the mass of our sun.

In near infrared light, new stars can be seen at the tip of the center and leftmost pillars. The star on the left is 4-5X the mass of our sun.



Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Video courtesy of ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser and L. L. Christensen
Cover image courtesy of ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Hill, Motte, HOBYS Key Programme Consortium and ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger
Visible light image courtesy of NASA/ESA/STScI/ASU/J.Hester & P.Scowen
X-ray image courtesy of NASA/CXC/U.Colorado/Linsky et al. and NASA/ESA/STScI/ASU/J.Hester & P.Scowen
Near infrared image courtesy of VLT/ISAAC/McCaughrean & Andersen/AIP/ESO


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