Soaring through the summer Milky Way is one of the most recognizable nebulae in the entire sky: the Eagle Nebula. When photographed in full, this glowing red cloud of ionized hydrogen mixed with ...

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 ...

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new view of the Eagle Nebula. This vast stellar nursery ...

In the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view, the Pillars of Creation inside the Eagle Nebula look like spires and arches of rock you might see rising from a desert landscape, but are ...

This week, Dave’s breaking down another pair of deep-sky objects that are situated nicely in the evening sky right now: the Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Omega Nebula (M17). Both of these are large ...

This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation’s 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Located in the constellation of Serpens, the ...

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 ...

inside freezing dust like this that new, hot stars are born. In this image ISO has captured a view of the ice enshrouding the fire. The Eagle nebula is an active ‘star nursery’ located 7000 ...

"As enormous as this dusty pillar is, it's just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula." A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by ...