The Pillars of Creation

Posted by bowene
on Wednesday, May 4, 2016

I used a new image processing technique to remove much of the Hydrogen Alpha (656nm) data from this image of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, revealing much more of the dust and embedded stars than are typically evident in images of this object.

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