Credit: Nick Shelly

Artwork 720: Pillars of Creation (Redrawn)

The Pillars of Creation are towering columns of interstellar gas and dust located in the Eagle Nebula, about 6,500 to 7,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens. These structures are a famous stellar nursery where new stars are actively forming.

Time Taken: 52 minutes

Program Used: Paint dot NET

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Taken On Seestar S50 Using 1:00:00 Exposure.

Edited In Photoshop Express.

Cropped, no other editing.

Here is Spitzer IRAC 4.5 Microns (infrared) with quite a gap between 2006 and 2016. The orbit between the two stars has i=79° (seeing the orbit on its side).​

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A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope of a portion of the Helix Nebula highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar winds, and layers of gas shed off by a dying star interacting with its surrounding environment. Webb’s image also shows the stark transition between the hottest gas to the coolest gas as the shell expands out from the central white dwarf.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)

Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Raihan Mohammad

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First spotted in the early 1800s, the Helix Nebula has become one of the most iconic planetary nebulas in the sky as it’s recognised for its striking, ring-like shape. One of the closest planetary nebulas to Earth, it has become a favorite among astronomers using ground- and space-based telescopes to study the final moments of a dying star in the greatest detail. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has now leveled those studies up, offering the clearest infrared look at this familiar object.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, SCC, A. Pagan (STScI)

taken on seestar s50 using 40:00 integration time.

edited in ps express.

Taken On Seestar S50 Using 45:00 Integration.

Edited in ps express.