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The Eagle Nebula with X-ray Hot Stars

Image Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-Newton; IR: JWST: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI, Spitzer: NASA/JPL/CalTech; Visible: Hubble: NASA/ESA/STScI, ESO; Image Processing: L. Frattare, J. Major, N. Wolk, and K. Arcand

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Pillars of gas and dark dust extend diagonally from the bottom left to the upper right. Bright X-ray sources are superimposed as bright dots around the image. Infrared dust glows behind the pillars.

APOD: 2023 July 25 – The Eagle Nebula with Xray Hot Stars

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If I was to name that nebula it, I would have called it the Cheetah nebula 🙂

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Picture of the Eagle nebula
Picture of a Cheetah
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would there be any way to see what this would look like in light visible to the human eye? This looks incredible! I wonder if it would look just as incredible if we were there to see it. 🤔

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