A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 ...

There are few more iconic images from the Hubble Space Telescope than this one. A colossal pillar of gas and dust towering 9.5 light-years tall, this spectacular structure in the Eagle Nebula ...

NASA used the James Webb Space Telescope to create a new image of the Pillars of Creation. These pillars are about 6,500 ...

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 ...

In the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view, the Pillars of Creation inside the Eagle Nebula look like spires and arches of rock you might see rising from a desert landscape, but are ...

As part of their ongoing celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula, specifically a "spire of cosmic gas and dust" that's in ...

NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory has unveiled a stunning view of the Eagle Nebula, showcasing X-ray hot stars scattered throughout this celestial wonder. In a mesmerizing composite image, the ...

Looking like a bird ready to take flight from atop a post, this dusty filament within the Eagle Nebula was recently captured in intricate detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Also known as M16, this ...

This week, Dave’s breaking down another pair of deep-sky objects that are situated nicely in the evening sky right now: the Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Omega Nebula (M17). Both of these are large ...

NASA’s most recent James Webb Space Telescope images of the Pillars of Creation, better known to astronomers as M16 in the Eagle Nebula, are enough to leave most anyone speechless. The iconic first ...

A new image from the European Southern Observatory shows a stunning starscape around the nebula Sh2-54, located 6,000 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens. Located close in the sky to the ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope have joined forces to produce stunning composite images of the cosmos. The space agency recently released images that combine X-ray data ...