Explanation: What lights up this castle of star formation? The familiar Eagle Nebula glows much like a neon sign, but in many colors at once. The above photograph is a composite of three of these glowing gas colors. In particular the glowing red Sulfur gas of the nebula nicely outlines some of the denser star forming knots. Energetic light from young massive stars causes the gas to glow and effectively boils away part of the dust and gas from its birth pillar. Many of these stars will explode after several million years, returning most of their elements back to the nebula which formed them. This process is forming an open cluster of stars known as M16.

<<  Iyul'  >> Pn Vt Sr Cht Pt Sb Vs   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       1995   1996   1997 1998   1999   2000 2001   2002   2003 2004   2005   2006 2007   2008   2009 2010   2011   2012 2013   2014   2015 2016   2017   2018 2019   2020   2021 2022   2023   2024

Yanvar' Fevral' Mart Aprel' Mai Iyun' Iyul' Avgust Sentyabr' Oktyabr' Noyabr' Dekabr'

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.

Publikacii s klyuchevymi slovami: zvezdoobrazovanie - Tumannost' Orla - zvezdnoe skoplenie Publikacii so slovami: zvezdoobrazovanie - Tumannost' Orla - zvezdnoe skoplenie
Sm. takzhe: IC 348 i Barnard 3 M16: stolpy sozidaniya Molodoe zvezdnoe skoplenie NGC 1333 Vybrosy iz protozvezd v Zmee CG4: globula i galaktika NGC 604: gigantskie zvezdnye yasli NGC 7714: vspyshka zvezdoobrazovaniya posle stolknoveniya galaktik Vse publikacii na tu zhe temu >>