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DescriptionEagle Nebula (M16) by NOAO.jpg |
English: This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Located in the constellation of Serpens, the Serpent, the Eagle Nebula is a very luminous open cluster of stars surrounded by dust and gas. The three pillars at the center of the image, made famous in an image by the Hubble Space Telescope, are being sculpted by the intense radiation from the hot stars in the cluster. This image was created by combining emission-line images in Hydrogen-alpha (green), Oxygen [O III] (blue) and Sulfur [S II] (red). |
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Source | https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-04086 (direct link) |
Author | T.A.Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA/NSF) and B.A.Wolpa (NOAO/AURA/NSF) |
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Credit/Provider | T.A.Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A.Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) |
Source | NSF's NOIRLab |
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Date and time of data generation | 09:49, 18 September 2002 |
JPEG file comment | m16 image by travis rector. correction layers added by mark hanna |
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