{"id":224835,"date":"2015-01-06T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"1e6d265873456fa56273025ad4c2fcc3"},"modified":"2015-01-06T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T16:04:00","slug":"new-view-of-the-pillars-of-creation-infrared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=224835","title":{"rendered":"New view of the Pillars of Creation &#8211; infrared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/01\/new_view_of_the_pillars_of_creation_-_infrared\/15182127-1-eng-GB\/New_view_of_the_Pillars_of_Creation_-_infrared_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula&#8217;s Pillars of Creation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows the pillars as seen in infrared light, allowing it to pierce through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar \u2013 but just as amazing \u2013 view of the pillars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this ethereal view the entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The ghostly outlines of the pillars seem much more delicate, and are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/55185-revisiting-an-icon-hubble-captures-the-pillars-of-creation-twenty-years-on-heic1501\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/01\/new_view_of_the_pillars_of_creation_-_infrared\/15182127-1-eng-GB\/New_view_of_the_Pillars_of_Creation_-_infrared_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of its most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula&#8217;s Pillars of Creation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows the pillars as seen in infrared light, allowing it to pierce through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar \u2013 but just as amazing \u2013 view of the pillars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this ethereal view the entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The ghostly outlines of the pillars seem much more delicate, and are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/55185-revisiting-an-icon-hubble-captures-the-pillars-of-creation-twenty-years-on-heic1501\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}