Discover the Eagle Nebula M16 made famous by the photo of the pillars of the creation of the Hubble telescope so you can print it and frame it at home or as a gift to a loved one! We will offer you the image in high definition in .jpg and .png format so that you can do with it what you want (frame, offer, make a postcard or greeting card).
 
Located in the Serpent constellation, M16 is actually a young open cluster. The most famous image is that of the Hubble telescope called the pillars of creation. The remainder is an Eagle-shaped gas cloud (IC 4703) which is often confused with M16 which is actually the leg in the center of the image.
 
It is an emission nebula. This means that the young stars which are born within it and which give off very energetic radiation ionize the hydrogen cloud constituting the nebula, which then makes its structure visible. 
 
The Eagle's Paw, which matches the famous Hubble telescope image, are large columns of gas that host the new stars. The gas, when it is sufficiently dense, ends up collapsing on itself and thus giving rise to new stellar bodies. 
 
Although they appear small in the image, these three small pillars of the leg are actually three light years long.
 
The image presented is the result of a mixture between a color image without filter, captured using the Zwo 533mc pro camera, and an image with the L-eXtreme filter from Optolong. This makes it possible to better highlight the different structures of the gas with its more or less dense places. It is also more visible as well as only without filter. Indeed, since the human eye is not capable of discerning certain wavelengths, the Eagle Nebula appears pale pink and appears much less detailed.
 
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