Discover the cosmosEach day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Explanation:Yes, but have you ever experienced the Eagle Nebula with yourears?
The famous nebulaM16is best known for the feast it gives your eyes, highlighting bright young stars forming deep insidedark towering structures.
Theselight-yearslong columns of cold gas anddustare some 6,500 light-years distanttowardthe constellation of the Serpent.
Sculpted and eroded by the energeticultraviolet lightand powerful winds fromM16โs cluster of massive stars, the cosmic pillars themselves are destined fordestruction.
But the turbulent environment of star formationwithin M16, whose spectacular details are captured inthiscombined Hubble and Chandra image, is likely similar to the environment that formed our own Sun.
In thefeatured video, listen for stars and dust sounding off as the line ofsonificationmoves left to right, with vertical position determiningpitch.
Tomorrowโs picture:what could it be?