Zooming in to EGGs in M16

Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16): Pillars of Creation in a Star-Forming Region

Undersea corral? Enchanted castles? Space serpents? These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like...

Star-Birth Clouds in M16: Stellar "Eggs" Emerge from Molecular Cloud

This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) and dust that is an incubator for new stars. The stars are embedded inside finger-like protrusions extending from the top...

Stellar "Eggs" Emerge from Molecular Cloud: Closeup of Evaporating Globules in M16

This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) and dust that is an incubator for new stars. The stars are embedded inside finger-like protrusions extending from the top...

Illustration of Stellar EGGs in M16