Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2022 March 14
     [2]The featured image shows bright globules at the end of an Eagle
    Nebula dust pillar. Called EGGS, these globules will likely form into
      stars. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

                     Star Formation in the Eagle Nebula
      Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]Hubble; Processing & Copyright:
                [6]Ignacio Diaz Bobillo & [7]Diego Gravinese

   Explanation: Where do stars form? One place, star forming regions known
   as "EGGs", are being uncovered at [8]the end of this [9]giant pillar of
   gas and [10]dust in the [11]Eagle Nebula (M16). Short for
   [12]evaporating gaseous globules, EGGs are dense regions of mostly
   molecular [13]hydrogen gas that fragment and gravitationally collapse
   to [14]form stars. Light from the hottest and brightest of these new
   stars heats the end of [15]the pillar and causes further evaporation of
   gas and dust -- revealing yet more [16]EGGs and more young stars. This
   [17]featured picture was created from exposures spanning over 30 hours
   with the Earth-orbiting [18]Hubble Space Telescope in 2014, and
   digitally processed with modern software by experienced volunteers in
   [19]Argentina. Newborn stars will gradually [20]destroy their birth
   pillars over the next 100,000 years or so -- if a [21]supernova doesn't
   destroy them first.

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