https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70 Part of the Eagle Nebula/ Messier 16 en-us 2020-03-09 17:20:08 UTC 2023-03-02 20:47:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30c.png 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457039567 A clearer, more zoomed in picture of the Pillars of Creation]]> 2020-03-09 17:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457039567 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457040832 The "pillars" are mostly dust and gas making it invisible in x-ray]]> 2020-03-09 17:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457040832 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457043145 Original photo taken in 1955 by the Hubble Space Telescope]]> 2020-03-09 17:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457043145 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457772267 X-ray allows us to see stars inside the "pillars". ]]> 2020-03-10 17:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457772267 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457801014 This photo was taken when the Pillars of Creation was revisited. It was taken with an infrared camera on the Hubble]]> 2020-03-10 17:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/457801014 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458554172  It was revisited in 2015 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (1990)]]> 2020-03-11 17:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458554172 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458555976 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.]]> 2020-03-11 17:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458555976 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458566330 2020-03-11 17:25:46 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458566330 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458569306 The Pillars of Creation is a star- forming region. In the tip of the largest pillar, there's a star (cluster of stars) forming. ]]> 2020-03-11 17:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458569306 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458572600 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."]]> 2020-03-11 17:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/458572600 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/459390791 2020-03-12 17:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/459390791 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460133135 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. ]]> 2020-03-13 16:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460133135 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460139610 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. ]]> 2020-03-13 16:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460139610 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460144584 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. ]]> 2020-03-13 16:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460144584 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460147772 O- type stars are about 16 times heavier than our sun. They have short but dramatic lives. ]]> 2020-03-13 16:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460147772 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460150545 “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.” ]]> 2020-03-13 16:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460150545 0911631 https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460153079 2020-03-13 16:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/0911631/rszha4bi3k70/wish/460153079