True Crime With Ash
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Host of F**k That, a true crime podcast. MPH, infectious disease nerd, lover of video games and all things spooky. TikTok @fthatpod linktr.ee/fthatpod
Host of F**k That, a true crime podcast. MPH, infectious disease nerd, lover of video games and all things spooky. TikTok @fthatpod linktr.ee/fthatpod
![Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from the Eagle Nebula. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar. The starlight also is responsible for illuminating the tower's rough surface. Ghostly streamers of gas can be seen boiling off this surface, creating the haze around the structure and highlighting its three-dimensional shape. The column is silhouetted against the background glow of more distant gas.
The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left.
The dominant colours in the image were produced by gas energized by the star cluster's powerful ultraviolet light. The blue colour at the top is from glowing oxygen. The red color in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen.
Caption credit: ESA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3k4iipaz7ara5xvp3p42moe/bafkreifohqwerpfrjfw5j4mictydliibublqg4bsl7guy5zzcpmaprmoyi)
