NASA has released an infrared image of the “Pillars of Creation”, showing the radiating glow off the pillars. The newest image of the Eagle Nebula gave the iconic pillars a spectacular blueish shadow. The Eagle Nebula is 7,000 light-years from Earth. Futurism has more details:
The earliest image of the pillars, a composite of 32 different images compiled using visible light, shows the pillars located in the Eagle Nebula throwing off cool hydrogen gas and cosmic dust.
First discovered in 1745 by Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux, the Eagle Nebula is roughly 7,000 light-years from Earth, a nursery for stars in the Serpens constellation.
The pillar structure is immense. Just the largest pillar on the left is about four to five light-years long.
image via NASA