In 1999, NASA used the Hubble Space Telescope to take a photo named "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula 6,500 light-years away. In the photo, the dense interstellar The gas and dust formed a tall and thin trunk-shaped gas column, which seemed to be a tall and independent mountain peak. It exuded an innate aloof temperament and became one of the masterpieces of the Hubble Space Telescope.
20 years later, the Hubble Space Telescope once again photographed the Pillars of Creation, this time using a new camera installed in 2009, the Wide Field Camera 3. The improved resolution captures the multiple colors of gas nebulae, faint curls of dark cosmic dust, and ocher trunk-shaped gas pillars. This not only surpasses space photos taken in the past, but also provides astronomers with a deeper and wider view. vision.
Although the original photos were named "Pillars of Creation," the newly captured images show that they are also "Pillars of Destruction." The intense radiation emitted by the new stars formed inside the gas column, as well as the strong storms from a large number of nearby stars, are gradually destroying and eroding the gas and dust that formed the gas column. At the edge of the gas column, there is a mysterious blue-colored mist. , also slowly evaporated due to the heat energy emitted by the new star. In fact, in 2007, space scientists had already predicted the fate of the Pillars of Creation being destroyed, or should have been destroyed. However, because the nebula is thousands of light-years away from the earth, we on the earth are now The pictures we saw have long been "outdated", which also means that perhaps our descendants in the next N generations will still have the opportunity to continue to appreciate the elegance of the Pillars of Creation.
Those who are interested can go to the Hubble Space Telescope website to enjoy the high-resolution images, or set them as wallpapers to enjoy them slowly.
