At 90 trillion kilometres high, about twice the distance from our sun to the nearest star, stars in the Eagle Nebula are born
A great tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula, the soaring tower is nine and a half light-years long. This is where stars are born when dense gas collapses under gravity.
Clouds of cold hydrogen gas reside in chaotic neighbourhoods where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes, and this gas may serve as a giant incubator for these newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of hot young stars is eroding the tower's surface, removing its rough surface.
Ghostly streamers of gas can be seen boiling off the surface, creating the haze around the structure and highlighting its three-dimensional shape.
Other stars may be forming due to the pressure from gas heated by neighbouring hot stars. The first wave of stars may have started forming before this massive cluster began emitting its scorching light.
The starburst may have begun when dense origins of cold gas within the tower collapsed under their own weight to make stars.
The bumps and fingers of material in the centre of the tower are examples of stellar birthing areas. These regions may look small, but they are roughly the size of our own solar system.
As the heated gas expands it acts like a battering ram pushing against the darker cold gas the intense pressure compresses the gas making it easier for stars to form this scenario may continue as the shock front moves slowly down the tower the dominant colours in the image were produced by gas energized by the star's cluster's powerful ultraviolet light.
The blue colour at the top is from cone oxygen, and the red colour in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen.
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