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 ...

"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 ...

A pair of European space telescopes has snapped a stunning new view of one of the most iconic deep-space objects ever seen: the Eagle nebula. The Eagle nebula is a distant star-forming nest of gas ...

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 ...

At the centre of the newly released image is the Eagle Nebula, a region of space made famous by an earlier photo, dubbed Pillars of Creation, which was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Hubble Space Telescope has re-imaged the Eagle Nebula, 20 years after it did so to mark 15 years of service. This time, astronomers have used new processing techniques to draw out additional ...

Few Hubble images are as iconic as the Pillars of Creation, towering structures of interstellar gas in the Eagle Nebula. After first imaging the pillars in 1995, Hubble revisited them in 2014 with ...

Many people have gazed in awe at the Hubble Space Telescope's image of the Eagle Nebula, also known as the "Pillars of Creation"—a spectacular star-forming region about 6,500 light-years away.

Located close in the sky to the famous Eagle Nebula, this is also a busy region of star formation where clouds of dust and gas are coalescing into knots and forming the hearts of new stars.

As part of their ongoing celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula, specifically a "spire of cosmic gas and dust" that ...