Subj : Daily APOD Report
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From : Alan Ianson
Date : Mon Mar 14 2022 00:57:22

                        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 March 14

                     Star Formation in the Eagle Nebula
    Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz
                          Bobillo & Diego Gravinese

   Explanation: Where do stars form? One place, star forming regions known
   as "EGGs", are being uncovered at the end of this giant pillar of gas
   and dust in the Eagle Nebula (M16). Short for evaporating gaseous
   globules, EGGs are dense regions of mostly molecular hydrogen gas that
   fragment and gravitationally collapse to form stars. Light from the
   hottest and brightest of these new stars heats the end of the pillar
   and causes further evaporation of gas and dust -- revealing yet more
   EGGs and more young stars. This featured picture was created from
   exposures spanning over 30 hours with the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space
   Telescope in 2014, and digitally processed with modern software by
   experienced volunteers in Argentina. Newborn stars will gradually
   destroy their birth pillars over the next 100,000 years or so -- if a
   supernova doesn't destroy them first.

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