- May 1, 2015
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The Pillars of Creation possibly one of the most iconic shows cosmic history.
The famous photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 showed these columns astral as an authentic paintings of the universe.
Now, like a restoration it were, new technological advances allow us to see in all its splendor in three dimensions, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the instant .
The astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), located in Chile, used a tool called VLT to achieve. This way you can see how their billowing clouds are distributed in space
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These famous structures are located 7,000 light-years away from Earth, in the Eagle nebula and, indeed, are a nursery of stars.
As explained by the institution itself, the pillars “are a classic example of ways column which develop in giant clouds of gas and dust where new stars are born. “
The columns arise when huge stars in white and blue colors of type O and B (hot and bright) “emit intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds” that shift The less dense materials, expelling the block.
However, the densest of gas and dust particles can resist erosion longer. Behind these lumps thicker dust, the material is protected from debilitating glare of the O and B stars.
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This shielding creates the “tails “dark and” elephant trunks “which is what we see” as the dark body of a pillar, pointing to the bright stars, “said the body.
Despite this beautiful show birth of stars, the nebula have an end. Scientists estimate that he will die in three million years
As these scientists say. A simple “blink”, speaking of cosmic time. Almost nothing.
The 3D video you can see here .
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