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“It may expand forever; expand, contract a little, and then become almost stationary; or expand and then contract all the way back to the center of the cloud. Balfour found that only the second case leads to prolific star formation — and even then only under very specific conditions.”

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O- type stars are about 16 times heavier than our sun. They have short but dramatic lives.

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The formation of the Pillars of Creation is unknown. The most likely possibility is that an O- Type star formed it. Baltour had tried to run computer simulations to determine how an O- type star could form the pillars.

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The Pillars of Creation are relatively small compared to the size of the Eagle Nebula. The Pillars stretch 4-5 light years while M16 stretches 70 by 50 light years. The Nebula is about 7,000 light years from Earth.

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The Nebula was discovered in the mid- 18th century by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux. Charles Messier rediscovered the nebula in 1764, giving it its name, M16.

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X-ray allows us to see stars inside the "pillars".

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According to NASA this is the most detailed picture of the Eagle Nebula taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. "The blue colors in the image represent oxygen, red is sulfur, and green represents both nitrogen and hydrogen."

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The Pillars of Creation is a star- forming region. In the tip of the largest pillar, there's a star (cluster of stars) forming.

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The Pillars of Creation are located in the Southern part of the Eagle Nebula. The Nebula is also known as Messier 16 or M16. The Eagle Nebula contains a young star cluster called NGC6611.

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It was revisited in 2015 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (1990)

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This photo was taken when the Pillars of Creation was revisited. It was taken with an infrared camera on the Hubble

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Original photo taken in 1955 by the Hubble Space Telescope

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A clearer, more zoomed in picture of the Pillars of Creation

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X-Ray picture of the Pillars of Creation

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X-Ray picture of the Pillars of Creation

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The "pillars" are mostly dust and gas making it invisible in x-ray