There is a strange sort of dread attached to this story, something very apocalyptic....shananapocalytic! SEATTLE - They helped open the public's eyes to the wonders of space when they were first photographed in 1995, but a new study suggests the famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula might have already been toppled long ago, and that what the Hubble Space Telescope actually captured was their ghost image.A new picture of the Eagle Nebula shot by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, presented at the 209th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, show the intact pillars next to a giant cloud of glowing dust scorched by the heat of a massive stellar explosion known as a supernova.
Pillars of Creation Toppled By Stellar Blast
Pillars of Creation Toppled By Stellar Blast
Pillars of Creation Toppled By Stellar Blast
There is a strange sort of dread attached to this story, something very apocalyptic....shananapocalytic! SEATTLE - They helped open the public's eyes to the wonders of space when they were first photographed in 1995, but a new study suggests the famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula might have already been toppled long ago, and that what the Hubble Space Telescope actually captured was their ghost image.A new picture of the Eagle Nebula shot by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, presented at the 209th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, show the intact pillars next to a giant cloud of glowing dust scorched by the heat of a massive stellar explosion known as a supernova.