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Old 01-07-2015, 08:40 AM   #1
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January 7, 2015: Pillars of Creation II



NASA felt it had been a while since we had seen this one, so they updated it using the Hubble:

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-coloured glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-coloured elephants' trunks of the nebula's famous pillars.

The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. With these new images comes better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers to study how the structure of the pillars is changing over time.
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Old 01-07-2015, 08:58 AM   #2
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That was my first post on the cellar, I think.

edit: ha ha! Here it is
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...600#post119600
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Old 01-07-2015, 09:20 AM   #3
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I'm originally from New Jersey. This is what "pillars" look like there:
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Old 01-07-2015, 09:49 AM   #4
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That's a really impressive image. We're pretty clever monkeys sometimes.
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Old 01-07-2015, 03:03 PM   #5
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They look disheveled, too organic, tell NASA to send a Richard Simons to tighten them up.
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Old 01-07-2015, 04:29 PM   #6
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I am disappoint in this thread.

I was expecting Terry Goodkind.
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Old 01-07-2015, 05:51 PM   #7
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And in near-infrared... or after shrooms...

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Old 01-08-2015, 02:44 PM   #8
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They look disheveled, too organic, tell NASA to send a Richard Simons to tighten them up.
They'll just get bit.

What, ain't Richard Simmons one of them pillar biters?
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Old 01-08-2015, 02:59 PM   #9
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And in near-infrared
I love how there is different information in different spectrums. I like this near infrared version, but the visible light one is better.
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Old 01-08-2015, 05:56 PM   #10
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So says the guy who is IR blind...

Why aren't we seeing UV spectrum? It's a government cover-up, that's where all the evidence of aliens is.
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Old 01-08-2015, 09:26 PM   #11
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I love how there is different information in different spectrums. I like this near infrared version, but the visible light one is better.
Agreed, the OP is much more attractive, less jarring. Probably is to most humans because it jibes with what our vision limits are used to.
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Old 01-09-2015, 04:03 PM   #12
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Looks like vomit to me.
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Old 01-09-2015, 05:34 PM   #13
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You've been babysitting too much Chris.
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Old 01-09-2015, 08:29 PM   #14
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Here's a hodge podge of the two of them.
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Old 01-10-2015, 03:45 PM   #15
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Oh noes... they are gone.
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This week NASA published new astonishing high definition images of the famous Pillars of Creation—two 4-light-year-tall columns located in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from here, first photographed in 1995. The only problem is that the pillars don't exist—they were destroyed more than a thousand years ago.
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