《The Eagle Nebula》 ---a found poem Star-forming region 7000 light years away Columns of gas and dust new stars recently formed The tallest of the pillars One light year in length Dense clouds of dust and gas survive the flooding by ultraviolet light from nearby hot stars As the pillars are slowly eroded by the ultraviolet light, small globules of even denser gas and dust buried within the pillars are uncovered Within these globules embryonic stars are forming Red emission from singly ionized sulfur atoms, green emission from atomic hydrogen, and blue emission from warmer, doubly-ionized oxygen atoms. And let's imagine... [Image credits: J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University), and NASA. From the NASA-JPL/Origins pages.]
