Someone recently showed me a 'pillar of fire' photograph showing stars being born. What was this all about?
I think what you are referring to is the fabulous images taken by the
Hubble Space Telescope of the star forming region Messier 16. Have a look at
the
HST Images of 1995
archive under "Star Birth in M16" for the GIF image used in most newspapers
and the accompanying text file of the Press Release. This is sometimes called
the
"Pillar of Gas".
Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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