Birth of Stars - Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula captured in visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stellar nurseries are hidden within the towers of dust and gas.

Courtesy of NASA, Jeff Hester, and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University)

Birth of Stars - Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula captured in visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stellar nurseries are hidden within the towers of dust and gas.

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Birth of Stars - Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula captured in visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stellar nurseries are hidden within the towers of dust and gas.,

1995

Jeff Hester, Active Tempe, AZ
Paul Scowen, Born 1966; active Greenbelt, MD
2025-66

Information

Title
Birth of Stars - Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula captured in visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stellar nurseries are hidden within the towers of dust and gas.
Dates

1995

Maker
Jeff Hester
Paul Scowen
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 31.7 × 32.7 cm (12 1/2 × 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 40.6 × 50.7 cm (16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and gift of Marthe M. Smith
Object Number
2025-66
Place Made

North America, United States, Arizona, Tempe, Arizona State University

Culture
American
Type
photographs, chromogenic color prints
Materials
chromogenic color prints
Subject
space photographs, observatories, unmanned spacecraft, stars, astronomy, space

TIme Inc.; acquired by Marthe Smith, 1998-1999; given to and purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2025.

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