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your sky.

Inside the Eagle Nebula

From afar, the Eagle Nebula looks like a giant bird. A closer look, however, shows the bright region is a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly lit workshop appears where an entire open cluster of stars is forming. Tall pillars and round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas remain in this cavity, where stars are still forming. Several young, bright blue stars are already visible, their light and winds burning away the surrounding gas.