Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Sun Dec 02 2018 06:29:00 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 December 2 [2] The Fairy of Eagle Nebula Image Credit: NASA [3] , ESA [4] , The Hubble Heritage Team [5] , (STScI [6] / AURA [7] ) Explanation: The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains [8] , the statuesque pillars [9] that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts [10] .. Featured here [11] is one of several striking dust pillars [12] of the Eagle Nebula [13] that might be described as a gigantic alien fairy [14] . This fairy, however, is ten light years [15] tall and spews radiation much hotter than common fire [16] . The greater Eagle Nebula [17] , M16, is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and dust [18] inside of which is a growing cavity [19] filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an open cluster [20] of stars. This great pillar, which is about 7,000 light years away, will likely evaporate away [21] in about 100,000 years. The featured image [22] in scientifically re-assigned colors [23] was released [24] in 2005 as part of the fifteenth anniversary celebration [25] of the launch [26] of the Hubble Space Telescope [27] . New: Instagram page features cool images recently submitted to APOD [28] Tomorrow's picture: battling black holes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [29] | Archive [30] | Submissions [31] | Index [32] | Search [33] | Calendar [34] | RSS [35] | Education [36] | About APOD [37] | Discuss [38] | > [39] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [40] (MTU [41] ) & Jerry Bonnell [42] (UMCP [43] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [44] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [45] A service of: ASD [46] at NASA [47] / GSFC [48] & Michigan Tech. U. [49] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1812/FairyPillar_Hubble_3857.jpg [3] https://www.nasa.gov/ [4] https://www.esa.int/ [5] http://heritage.stsci.edu/commonpages/infoindex/ourproject/moreproject.html [6] http://www.stsci.edu/resources/ [7] https://www.aura-astronomy.org/ [8] ap071226.html [9] ap160424.html [10] http://www.pantheon.org/areas/bestiary/ [11] http://hubblesite.org/image/1693 [12] ap061022.html [13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula [14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairies [15] http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html [16] ap180826.html [17] ap140216.html [18] ap030706.html [19] http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/teeth/cavity.html [20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_cluster [21] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/06/26/ how-quickly-are-the-pillars-of-creation-being-destroyed/ [22] http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2005-12 [23] http://bf-astro.com/hubblep.htm [24] http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/12b/index.html [25] http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0506.html [26] https://youtu.be/D8UsCXsO4gU [27] http://www.stsci.edu/hst/HST_overview/ [28] https://www.instagram.com/universe_view_screen/ [29] ap181201.html [30] archivepix.html [31] lib/apsubmit2015.html [32] lib/aptree.html [33] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [34] calendar/allyears.html [35] /apod.rss [36] lib/edlinks.html [37] lib/about_apod.html [38] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=181202 [39] ap181203.html [40] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [41] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [42] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [43] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [44] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [45] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [46] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [47] https://www.nasa.gov/ [48] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [49] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .