What is the "pillar of creation and creation" that shot the moment when a new star is born?

NASA'sHubble Space TelescopeIs a space telescope that is capable of "difficult astronomical observations from the ground" because it is on the orbit of the Earth. In April 1990DiscoveryThe Hubble Space Telescope launched by the center is located in the center of "Waka Nebula (M16)" which is a celestial complex composed of diffuse clusters of the snake in 1995Dark NebulaI succeeded in shooting. This dark nebula is "Pillars of heaven and earth creationIt was named "Mysterious appearance" and attracted a lot of people, but in 2014 it succeeded in photographing a picture of "a pillar of heaven and earth creation" of even higher image quality, together with a photograph NASA reveals the identity.

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Hubble's new view of iconic 'Pillars of Creation' - space - 06 January 2015 - New Scientist
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The first time the Hubble Space Telescope took "the pillar of creation and creation" was in 1995, just 20 years ago. The pictures taken in 1995 are about the size of a small grand piano that was attached to the Hubble Space TelescopeWide area planetary camera 2(WFPC 2), which is a characteristic photograph of three high pole towers.

Three pillars in the picture are gases and dust, which are the raw materials that create new stars. It seems that the pillars are collapsing while being formed by burning ultraviolet rays poured from nearby young stars. The photograph colors the light (such as infrared rays and ultraviolet rays) in areas that can not be seen with the naked eye in an easy to understand manner, and in reality it is not that a colorful figure is seen as much as a photograph.


The columnar dark nebula seen in the picture of "The Pillar of Creation in the Heaven and Earth" is a common occurrence at the stage when the star is formed, but "Astronomer of Arizona State University astronomer" said that "This picture has become too famous" It was related to the coloring of the original picture of "Pillar of Creation in the Heaven and Earth"Paul ScowenHe says.

The pictures of "Pillars of Creation in the Heaven and Earth" were to be used from one scene of the movie to the bed sheets, but Mr. Skoewen, who was involved in the coloring of the light, made such a coloring to make the picture look beautiful It is not saying. Although actual ionized oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur and the like exist in the "pillar of creation of heaven and earth", in the photograph they express them vividly by the blue phenomenon, the green color, the red color etc. by the physical phenomenon, and Mr. Skogwen's It seems that accurate representation on physical phenomena and structure of substances became a sample of many astrophotographs after that.

"We did not make such a color scheme because the pictures were so beautiful, but when we made something that is based on the physical phenomenon, a very beautiful picture was completed," says Scowen.


It is a "pillar of creation of heaven and earth" photographed in 1995, but it is a camera newly attached to the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009, boasting twice the resolution of WFPC 2Wide field camera 3The shooting was also done in 2014 using. This picture has been announced by Mr. Sukowen at the American Astronomical Society since 2015. The wide field of view camera 3 is a camera shooting ultraviolet rays and near infrared rays besides visible light, and it shows the appearance of "pillar of creation of heaven and earth" finer than when photographed 19 years ago.

In the newly photographed picture, the appearance of gas and dust of the dark nebula is shown more precisely. For example, it seems that columnar gas is ionized or a part of the surface of the pillar is sprayed with sand by the barrage of charged particles blowing from other stars, compared with the picture of 19 years ago If you do, you will notice that there is a big change in how gas and dust looks.


In addition, this is a picture of "Pillar of Creation in the Heaven and Earth" photographed from another angle. Were photographs taken with a more sensitive camera, the number of the stars behind has increased by dozens of times.


The moment when a new star is born is not a phenomenon peculiar to M16, but it can be seen if it matches the timing in the universe even if it matches. However, it is the M16 dark nebula that is located 6500 light-years away from where the stars were about to be born at the nearest position from the Earth.

This is a picture showing the whole picture of M16, and just three pillars of the dark nebula can be seen in the middle of the picture.