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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2022 August 12   
      
                           Portrait of the Eagle Nebula   
                    Image Credit & Copyright: Charles Bonafilia   
      
      Explanation: A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by   
      natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, Messier 16 (M16) is also known as   
      The Eagle Nebula. This beautifully detailed image of the region adopts   
      the colorful Hubble palette and includes cosmic sculptures made famous   
      in Hubble Space Telescope close-ups of the starforming complex.   
      Described as elephant trunks or Pillars of Creation, dense, dusty   
      columns rising near the center are light-years in length but are   
      gravitationally contracting to form stars. Energetic radiation from the   
      cluster stars erodes material near the tips, eventually exposing the   
      embedded new stars. Extending from the ridge of bright emission left of   
      center is another dusty starforming column known as the Fairy of Eagle   
      Nebula. M16 lies about 7,000 light-years away, an easy target for   
      binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward   
      the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake). As   
      framed, this telescopic portrait of the Eagle Nebula is about 70   
      light-years across.   
      
                    Tomorrow's picture: small moon, big crater   
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