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Let’s take a look at the Eagle Nebula—twice in fact—with the Hubble and Webb space telescopes! First observed by Hubble in 1995, this captivating scene was revisited in 2014 by the telescope. Hubble’s reexamination of this region, seen here, shows a sharper and wider view than its original image. In visible light, the dark brown pillars seem multi-layered and opaque, with only a few red stars able to peek through the columns of gas and dust. In 2022, astronomers used Webb to observe this same ar

ORIONS OTHER NEBULA, MESSIER 42 By Phil Plait The Great Nebula of Orion, M42, is a classic star-forming gas cloud, visible to the naked eye as the middle star in Orion’s “dagger.” And while M42 gets all the press, right next to it is a smaller but no less dramatic nebula, M43. Stars are forming there, too, and when you mix young, massive, hot stars and dense clouds of gas and dust, what you get is beauty. Voilà! Holy wow! That picture was taken by Yuri Beletsky and Igor Chilingarian. . They used

23K views · 1.1K reactions | • 3D Flight Through the Orion Nebula in...