Skip to main content LOADING... Loading ... AddThis Button BEGIN Text Size This is the code for the Facebook Share button without counter that pulls from the Graph API AddThis Button END Hubble Goes High-Definition to Revisit Iconic 'Pillars of Creation' January 5, 2015 Although NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken many breathtaking images of the universe, one snapshot stands out from the rest: the iconic view of the so-called “Pillars of Creation.” The jaw-dropping photo, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen details of three giant columns of cold gas bathed in the scorching ultraviolet light from a cluster of young, massive stars in a small region of the Eagle Nebula, or M16. Though such butte-like features are common in star-forming regions, the M16 structures are by far the most photogenic and evo...