Wow!

• by lynda3121

  How lovely is this...... lots of knotty-ness I think

  Posted January 10, 2011 9:02 PM

• by broomrider1970

  Lynda, this images is of the Pillars of Creation, also called the Pillars of Life. 😃 You'll find several different angles of this image.
  ~Bright Blessings
  Tina

  Posted June 17, 2011 1:08 PM

• by broomrider1970

  well, Same area as Ken says. He's got a file you can go through. 😃

  Posted June 18, 2011 6:35 PM

• by legoryan717

  i just collected this! ha ha!

  Posted December 12, 2011 10:50 AM

• by legoryan717 in response to lynda3121's comment.

  lynda3121
  How lovely is this...... lots of knotty-ness I think

  what?

  Posted December 12, 2011 10:51 AM

• by suelaine

  A large nebulas with a star forming pillar emerging from one side

  Posted June 14, 2013 4:27 PM

• by Fleshgod

  For me it looks like the shock-fronts of 3 Bubbles clashed and compressed the material of the shells. The pillar between the two big bubbles in the center might be such a compressed area, where the density was high enough to initiate star formation!
  Therefore in this pillar new stars were formed and generated their own small bubbles which you can see on the pillar!
  A very nice picture, i really like it!

  Posted June 14, 2013 9:16 PM

• by msp18 scientist

  You've picked a good one here—this is the famous Trifid Nebula, a favorite target for astrophotographers. It looks a bit different in our infrared image than is does in visible light: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090707.html

  —Matt Povich (MWP Zookeeper)

  Posted June 17, 2013 6:52 PM