APOD 2.7

Inside the Eagle Nebula, dust sculptures are evaporating. As the cosmic mountains are whittled away by powerful starlight, "statuesque pillars" remain , which, by some, look like mythical beasts. In the picture, is one of the dust pillars within the Eagle Nebula, which looks like a giant alien fairy. Rising a mere 10 light-years tall, this fairy gives off radiation much hotter than a common fire. In actuality, M16, the Greater Eagle Nebula, is a large evaporating cover of gas and dust with an inside cavity filled with a stellar area currently forming an open star cluster. This picture is pretty interesting, especially since this cosmic dust fairy stands 10 light-years tall. The bright stars around the image look pretty amazing surrounded by the dust, and the bright light coming from the bottom of the cosmic dust fairy also look pretty amazing.