File:Pillars of creation 2014 HST WFC3-UVIS full-res.jpg
Original file (6,780 × 7,071 pixels, file size: 69.72 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary[edit]
DescriptionPillars of creation 2014 HST WFC3-UVIS full-res.jpg |
English: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image.
Astronomers combined several Hubble exposures to assemble the wider view. The towering pillars are about 5 light-years tall. The dark, finger-like feature at bottom right may be a smaller version of the giant pillars. The new image was taken with Hubble's versatile and sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3. The pillars are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shadowing material beneath them from the powerful radiation. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars, which are made of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust. The pillars are part of a small region of the Eagle Nebula, a vast star-forming region 6,500 light-years from Earth. The colors in the image highlight emission from several chemical elements. Oxygen emission is blue, sulfur is orange, and hydrogen and nitrogen are green. A number of Herbig-Haro jets lengthened noticeably (see lower panel of linked page) in the 20-year interval between the two Hubble images. Object Names: M16, Eagle Nebula, NGC 6611 A longer news release is linked here. |
Date | (released 2015-01-05) |
Source | http://hubblesite.org/image/3471/news_release/2015-01 |
Author | NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
Other versions |
|
Licensing[edit]
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) | ||
Warnings:
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 23:13, 1 February 2015 | 6,780 × 7,071 (69.72 MB) | WolfmanSF (talk | contribs) | Reverted to version as of 06:43, 7 January 2015 - needed to upload the denoised version as a new file, to generate denoised zoom viewer versions - will then have to transfer FA status to new file | |
06:43, 7 January 2015 | 6,780 × 7,071 (69.72 MB) | WolfmanSF (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 11 pages use this file:
- User talk:Crisco 1492/Archive 1
- File:Eagle Nebula - GPN-2000-000987.jpg
- File:Eagle nebula pillars.jpg
- File:Eagle nebula pillars 2014.jpg (file redirect)
- File:Hs-2015-01-c-xlarge web.jpg (file redirect)
- File:New view of the Pillars of Creation — infrared Heic1501b.jpg
- File:Pillars 2014 HST denoise 0.6 12.jpg
- File:Pillars of creation 2014 HST WFC3-UVIS full-res.jpg
- File:Pillars of creation 2014 HST WFC3-UVIS full-res denoised.jpg
- File:Pillars of creation 2014 HST WFC3 medium res.jpg (file redirect)
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on af.wikipedia.org
- Usage on be-tarask.wikipedia.org
- Usage on be.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ca.wikipedia.org
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fi.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Fausse couleur
- Utilisateur:Antoniex
- Risque de catastrophe planétaire
- Utilisateur:ManuRoquette
- Utilisateur:Erickespinal26
- Discussion utilisatrice:Riro 99
- Utilisateur:Charlestpt
- Wikipédia:Le Bistro/28 octobre 2019
- Discussion utilisateur:Simon Villeneuve/Archive 2021
- Piliers de la création (astronomie)
- Hilt 745
- Usage on fr.wikiversity.org
- Usage on id.wikipedia.org
- Usage on pl.wikipedia.org
- Usage on sr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on uk.wikipedia.org
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Width | 6,780 px |
---|---|
Height | 7,071 px |
Bits per component |
|
Compression scheme | LZW |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 12:51, 15 December 2014 |
Color space | sRGB |
Date and time of digitizing | 12:34, 29 October 2014 |
Date metadata was last modified | 07:51, 15 December 2014 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:FAF55E009E2568118083D7A173FB3112 |