Head of Column No. 1 in Eagle Nebula Wall Art including Frame T-shirts astronomer highlighter a Hubble image

astronomer highlighter a Hubble image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot

the edge of the full field-of-view is about the size of the diameter of the Moon

called NGC 2023

Planetary nebulas are expanding shells of gas created by dying stars that are shedding their outer layers

approximately 65 million light-years away

Head of Column No. 1 in Eagle Nebula Wall Art including Frame T-shirts astronomer highlighter a Hubble imageEnlarged view of the head of the largest of the three main pillars, Column 1. The head is almost transparent around the edges at near infrared wavelengths, but there is still a substantial opaque core which even these near infrared VLT observations cannot penetrate. The complex bluish nebulosity bisected by a dark lane near the tip is being lit up by the bright yellow star just below it, which appears to be very young and rather massive. Several of