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The Eagle Nebula

Date: 16 January 2012
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This stunning movie shows the Eagle Nebula from the iconic 1995 Hubble image of the Pillars of Creation through to the latest multi-wavelength composite.

Credits: far-infrared: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Hill, Motte, HOBYS Key Programme Consortium; ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger; optical: MPG/ESO; near-infrared: VLT/ISAAC/McCaughrean & Andersen/AIP/ESO

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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