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| These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are
columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars.
The pillars are part of the "Eagle Nebula", a nearby star-forming region 7,000
light-years away in the constellation Serpens. |
| Photo credit: Jeff Hester and
Paul Scowen (Arizona State University), and NASA. |
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