The Eagle nebula.
A birthplace of stars.
It lies in the constellation Serpens, and
is about 7000 light years away from Earth.
The nebula's dense cloud of interstellar gas
and dust is the breeding groud of a cluster
of young stars.
The pillars of creation region within the
emission nebula was photographed by Hubble
Telescope on April 1, 1995.
In 2007 an observational study suggested that
the giant column of hydrogen gas and dust
were destroyed by stellar explosion, or a
supernova, some 6,000 years ago, and that
the 1995 photograph is actually a ghost image
captured by hubble.
