STARS being born deep inside the Eagle Nebula have been caught on camera for
the first time. The nebula’s impressive “pillars of creation” were thought to
contain nascent stars, but telescopes were unable to penetrate the dust
surrounding them. Now an infrared camera called ISAAC has cut through the
clouds.
In 1995, the Eagle Nebula became famous overnight when Jeff Hester of Arizona
State University in Tempe published a stunning image of it taken by the Hubble
Space Telescope (Â鶹´«Ã½, 11 November 1995, p 6). The nebula
used to be much bigger, but ultraviolet radiation from nearby stars…
