These can be seen as red-tinted spots of light in the two largest pillars in this image, glowing brightly at the longest wavelengths of infrared light. This image uses data from the original ...
The image encompasses the epic Pillars of Creation, a famous cosmic formation that has enchanted Earthlings for decades. The Hubble Space Telescope first made the Pillars of Creation—a star ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of Creation famous with its first image in 1995, but revisited the scene in 2014 to reveal a sharper, wider view in visible light, shown above at left.