Probably the most famous photograph every taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is of the “Pillars of Creation”; a star forming region inside the Eagle Nebula (aka M16). Astronomers have wanted to know just how much star formation is actually going on inside the nebula. One of Hubble’s co-Great Observatories, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, has … Continue reading "Chandra Gives Another Look at the Pillars of Creation"