ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation. One of the most famous images ever taken by ...

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is a well-known stellar nursery with vast swaths of cosmic dust and gas from ...

There are few more iconic images from the Hubble Space Telescope than this one. A colossal pillar of gas and dust towering 9.5 light-years tall, this spectacular structure in the Eagle Nebula ...

To celebrate Hubble's 26th birthday photographing the universe, NASA released awesome images the telescope captured of the "Bubble Nebula" — which looks like a giant soap bubble in space.

The glowing pink nebula and snakelike dark clouds are sculpted by the luminous stars in the cluster. Hubble's exquisite sensitivity and resolution were instrumental in uncovering the secrets of ...

"As enormous as this dusty pillar is, it's just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula." The recent Hubble image was created using new data processing techniques developed since Hubble last ...