Evaporating Peaks: Pillars in the Monkey Head Nebula

The Monkey Head Nebula (also known as NGC 2174) is a star-forming region in which bright, newborn stars near the center of the nebula illuminate the surrounding gas with energetic radiation. This radiation, along with strong stellar winds, erodes away the lower density gas. Pockets of higher density gas resist this erosion, and form pillars and peaks along the inner edge of the roughly circular cloud.
This video showcases visible and infrared light views of a collection of pillars along one edge of the nebula. The sequence begins with a view of the night sky near the constellation of Gemini and Orion. The view zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 to reveal a Hubble Space Telescope visible light view of the top of this region of pillars.
A cross-fade transitions not only between Hubble's visible and infrared light views, but also from a two-dimensional image to a three-dimensional sculpted model of the region. The camera then pulls back to reveal the landscape of evaporating peaks of gas and dust surrounded by stars. Note that the visualization is intended to be a reasonable interpretation (not scientifically accurate) and that distances within the model are significantly compressed.
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[@hubblespacetelescope]

We're celebrating Hubble's 24th birthday, and here's your present -- a video that takes you into Hubble's anniversary image of the Monkey Head Nebula and transitions between Hubble's visible and infrared views. It's featured in HubbleSite's new Video Gallery, where you'll find a special, expanding collection of Hubble science visualizations, 3-D videos, and more.
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[@rodolfofortunio939]

Impresionante

[@analynv.mapanao7116]

Magnifico...

[@lisahammond1393]

Wonderful!

[@Daniel-xp1jy]

Such wonder
Very Fantastica

[@rodolphetardy2606]

Magique, on se sent tout petit

[@Arjetube]

I am still waiting for a zoomable high resolution 3D environment, that contains all known areas in space

[@RubanauAliaksei]

have a nice trip, people of earth

[@ronfurgerson6335]

Thanks Hubble Team for this fabulous presentation.

[@Dustie1984]

Beautiful!

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Parabéns a todos! Vou utilizar no meu Blog.
Muito obrigada
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[@MrNigelski]

Thanks for the explanation.

[@ap0oth3kary]

I'd like to add that those stars that 'twinkle' with the cross formation, is part of the fore-ground, therefore not in focus; the bigger the cross, the bigger the lens flare, the closer the star is to us and not the in-focus image which would be the nebula cloud in this case. All the cross shaped stars are further away from the nebula than the image suggests.

[@ap0oth3kary]

From the ground, yes, we will see a 'moving' twinkling star due to refraction in the atmosphere. Generally observatories are on hilltops high in the atmosphere for as little atmospheric interference as possible though, most of these cross shapes are result of of lens flare. Good point though.

[@StarwitchStone]

Beautiful video, thank you!

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Very beautiful!!!

[@averysmallmushroom3614]

If you guys find you learn better by listening to music while absorbing information, the song Sun by Thomas Bergerson fits perfectly in this film. Also, can I just point out how stinking huge The Monkey Head is compared to the stars around it, and yet it's so tiny compared to the rest of the universe!!!!! WHOAH.....

[@uuvhugo]

the universe is SOOOO beautiful....i wish i will born 500 years in the future...

[@carolynschield5453]

this is Awesome

[@billalhossainfrancis7685]

Nice

[@elbernito]

Wow... Nice...

[@douglasr.garciaa.4175]

Dios, qué inmensidad!.

[@Justin_Martin]

Pillars is awesome 🇺🇸👑💕

[@MrNigelski]

I'm curious as to how this type of image is made. Is it artist rendered or done by cgi? It looks phony to me, mostly because stars aren't supposed to twinkle when viewed from space-the twinkle effects are caused by atmospheric interference, right?

[@kurtilein3]

they take the original image and seperate it into different layers based on distance for some sort of pseudo-3d effect. i dont see any twinkling. if you mean the shape of the stars, that they are turned into something like a cross, thats an imperfection of the telescope. some light bends around the support structure of the secondary mirror, which obscures part of the primary mirror, and with bright stars the effect is strong enough to be visible.

[@seahippies]

There is no 'twinkle'. Get off the crack!

[@MrNigelski]

Go fuck yourself Hetherington. By the way, I don't need fifty people commenting on my comment, all no doubt astrology majors. Once sufficed, so just can it already.

[@kurtilein3]

Greg Gauvreau There is no 'twinkle'. Get off the crack!

[@alpanachowdhury8025]

Event horizon telescope

[@user-pl2tk1jo2m]

this is not a real zoom from hubble if that's right lets make zoom to the moon

[@fristnamelastname4677]

Is this video real or an artist's impression?

[@totowolf9716]

FristName LastName lol...when did NASA ever produce real images?

[@totowolf9716]

Thank god I didn't get this fake shit tattooed on my body