By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Nov 13 22:11:23 MST 2011)
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An entirely different take on the famed pillars of creation was gained with this wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula made with the 0.9-meter telescope on Arizona's Kitt Peak. "It puts the other image that is well-known -- that is in the very center -- puts it in a bigger perspective," Nemiroff says. "And you can see a star nebula as an open cluster of stars forming there -- the pink."
