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Loading contentCaption: The 'Pillars of Creation' — towers of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, one of Hubble's most iconic images.
Columns of cool molecular hydrogen and dust in a star-forming region of M16, being sculpted and eroded by the ultraviolet light of nearby massive young stars.
Instrument: WFPC2 · Visible light
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