The National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) of the United States of America released a jaw-dropping image of “Pillars of Creation” through the lenses of their High-Definition Hubble space telescope. According to NASA’s description the “Pillars of Creation” it is a three giant columns of cold gas bathed in scorching ultraviolet light froma cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nubula, or M16.
The US Space Agency already pictured the popular “Pillars of Creation” during the year 1995 and after 20 years of its first discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope revisited the place now armed with high-definition lenses, providing astronomers with clearer and sharper pictures.
The revisiting of Hubble Space telescope also marked the 25th anniversary of the most powerful telescope ever invented by man on Earth. Based upon NASA’s report, near-infrared lights and visible lights have been used when Hubble photographed the pillars which is also dubbed as the “Pillar of Destruction.”
The new image of the “Pillars of Creation” are being used in Seattle at the American Astronomical Society meeting while the 1995 image previously became an artwork on T-Shirt, Postage Stamps and even appeared in movies and TV shows.
The Pillars was discovered during the year 1995 by Paul Scowen of Arizona State University in Tempe, who led the original Hubble observations of the Eagle Nebula, together with astronomer Jeff Hester, formerly of Arizona State University.
According to the astronomers they coined the image as “Pillars of Creation” because they were impressed by how transitory the structures are. The structures are actively being ablated away before their eyes, the ghostly bluish haze around the dense edges of the pillars is material getting heated up an evaporating away into space. The caught the pillars at a very unique and short-lived moment in their revolution.