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Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Star EGGs in the Eagle Nebula
Explanation:
Where do stars form? One place, star forming regions known as "EGGs", are uncovered at the end of this giant pillar [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of gas and dust [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in the Eagle Nebula [ http://en.wikipedia…] (M [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]16). EGGs, short for evaporating gaseous globules [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], are dense regions of mostly molecular hydrogen [ http://periodic.lan…] gas that fragment and gravitationally collapse to form stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Light from the hottest and brightest of these new stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] heats the end of the pillar and causes further evaporation of gas - revealing yet more EGGs [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.g…] and more young stars. This picture [ http://hubblesite.o…] was taken by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera [ http://www.stsci.ed…] on board the Hubble Space Telescope [ http://www.stsci.ed…].
Credit and Copyright:
J. Hester [ http://sese.asu.edu…] & P. Scowen (Arizona State U. [ http://sese.asu.edu/]), HST [ http://www.stsci.ed…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
facet_where:
Arizona
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
nebula
facet_what:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap061022

Star EGGs in the Eagle Nebula
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