stsci_2007-16f April 24th, 2007
Credit: Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
These great clouds of cold hydrogen resemble summer afternoon thunderheads. They tower above the surface of a molecular cloud on the edge of the nebula. So-called "elephant trunk" pillars resist being heated and eaten away by blistering ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's brightest stars.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2007/news-2007-16
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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