The Creation of Pillars

  • Released Thursday, February 1, 2024
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A Hyperwall ready version of the Space Telescope Science Institute video originally published at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slx91ASCiXw

A behind the scenes look at producing a scientific visualization of the famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula.

The AstroViz Project of NASA's Universe of Learning is creating an exploration into the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. This production reel provides a peek into the underlying science, the 2D image processing, and the development of 3D volumetric models of these star-forming wonders using visible and infrared data from the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes.

An animation showing the process of creating a visualization of the Eagle Nebula.

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See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slx91ASCiXw

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Please give credit for this item to:
Visualization Team: Greg Bacon, Ralf Crawford, Joseph DePasquale, Leah Hustak, Danielle Kirshenblat, Joseph Olmsted, Alyssa Pagan, Frank Summers (STScI), Robert Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)

Science Advisor: Anna McLeod (Durham)

This page was originally published on Thursday, February 1, 2024.
This page was last updated on Friday, October 11, 2024 at 12:32 AM EDT.

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