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"What are forming in the Eagle Nebula's 'Pillars of Creation'?"

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The Eagle Nebula, so this is these 
pillars sometimes grandiosely called the  

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"Pillars of Creation." You see these pillar-like 
objects or structures pointing to new stars.

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We know these dense regions would be the prime 
location for stars to form, there's a lot of dense  

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material there, that's how stars form. They form 
from coalescing clumps of dense gas and dust.

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But with visible light we can't 
see into those pillars very well.

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Now Hubble has this wonderful capability with 
its camera of seeing not only visible light  

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but seeing some infrared light. Infrared light 
can penetrate into some of these dusty regions,

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and so if you look at the Eagle Nebula as we 
did with Hubble in visible light and infrared  

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light, we can compare those images and the infrared 
light shows us what it's like inside those pillars,

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and we can actually see hot spots where stars,
protostars, are coming together and forming in the  

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pillars and at the very tips of the pillars where 
we have these denser clumps of gas. That shows why  

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it's so important to have these different eyes,
if you will, eyes to the visible light, but eyes  

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as Hubble has to some infrared light and also 
to the energetic ultraviolet light. All of this  

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gives us some information that differs but is 
complementary about things like star formation.

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