The Creation of Pillars

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.
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)

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  • @TheHunterhal
    @TheHunterhal4 ай бұрын

    Last scene is incredible

  • @EllaShartiel
    @EllaShartiel4 ай бұрын

    Oh boy what a teaser!!

  • @Babicoste
    @Babicoste4 ай бұрын

    I've seen some creators screen recording the process of creating something trough a video time lapse, by far this is the biggest flex ever!

  • @SilverHaze5X
    @SilverHaze5X4 ай бұрын

    FANTASTIC making off, hats down!

  • @jerseymomma512
    @jerseymomma5124 ай бұрын

    This looks great! Beautiful work!

  • @hubblespacetelescope
    @hubblespacetelescope4 ай бұрын

    Folks, if you want to know more about the Pillars of Creation, at least the Hubble versions, check out this video that compares the 1994 Hubble against the 2014 Hubble against the 2014 infrared Hubble: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKWOlNqto624d8Y.html

  • @entropyachieved750
    @entropyachieved7504 ай бұрын

    Outstanding!

  • @carlottasecchi4261
    @carlottasecchi42614 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the huge and wonderful work! 🌹

  • @rhoddryice5412
    @rhoddryice54124 ай бұрын

    I loved this. There are a few great questions here in the comments section which answered. I think it would be interesting with a follow up video addressing those.

  • @DigitalxCorpse
    @DigitalxCorpse3 ай бұрын

    So cool! Can’t wait!

  • @terratec1001
    @terratec10014 ай бұрын

    How do we know what the rear of the pillars is if we can only see them from the front?

  • @hubblespacetelescope

    @hubblespacetelescope

    4 ай бұрын

    We have some indications of what the back of the pillars look like because the infrared emission seen by Webb sometimes comes from the back side - parts of the pillars are somewhat transparent to the longer wavelengths of infrared light. In other cases, we use scientific extrapolation/intuition and artistic license.

  • @terratec1001

    @terratec1001

    4 ай бұрын

    @@hubblespacetelescope Thanks for the explanation :)

  • @gillangillan264
    @gillangillan2644 ай бұрын

    Great works!

  • @ChroniclogicalJeff
    @ChroniclogicalJeff4 ай бұрын

    Very freaken cool!

  • @maktham2006
    @maktham20064 ай бұрын

    I think we are looking at this nebula from the best angle

  • @jeremycrane2005
    @jeremycrane20054 ай бұрын

    What was the song playing with this video? It sounds wonderful

  • @hubblespacetelescope

    @hubblespacetelescope

    4 ай бұрын

    The song was licensed from an online company. We think it really suits the piece well!

  • @marco.trevisan

    @marco.trevisan

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@hubblespacetelescope Ok, but you didn't answer, and I had the same question. Would it be possible to know the song and author, please?

  • @alandyer910
    @alandyer9104 ай бұрын

    Excellent! Are you using RC-Astro StarXTerminator to eliminate the stars? Or do you have some proprietary routine to do that? Thanks!

  • @zapbutton8553

    @zapbutton8553

    3 ай бұрын

    Photoshop Magic Wand?😁

  • @alimcri
    @alimcri4 ай бұрын

    ждем! 🎉

  • @markbass_trojanthinking
    @markbass_trojanthinking4 ай бұрын

    🎉wow out of this world

  • @yaddahaysmarmalite4059
    @yaddahaysmarmalite40594 ай бұрын

    that makes the image make so much sense. its hard to understand the object when all you have is a 2d perspective.

  • @Regnier191
    @Regnier1914 ай бұрын

    If these images were taken so many years appart why are the patterns in the nebular identical? Surely it would've changed shape over the years?

  • @SuperNova-py1ec

    @SuperNova-py1ec

    4 ай бұрын

    Good question. I think they are so large that the changes are not noticeable at that scale. I know Hubble has been able to image changes in some objects but they may have been at different scales.

  • @TabooGroundhog

    @TabooGroundhog

    4 ай бұрын

    The pillars stretch about 5 light-years and with the image from Hubble being 7000 pixels that’s about 4 billion miles per pixel, more than our distance to Pluto. I think they could see small changes but not at the scale of the whole image.

  • @hubblespacetelescope

    @hubblespacetelescope

    4 ай бұрын

    There are subtle changes between the 1994 Hubble image, the 2014 Hubble image, and the 2022 Webb image. But, by and large, the pillars (and most other astronomical objects) don't change appreciably on human time scales. As another poster noted, the length scales here are huge, and it takes a long time for changes to propogate across such distances.

  • @douglasveragino9706
    @douglasveragino97064 ай бұрын

    💥

  • @TabooGroundhog
    @TabooGroundhog4 ай бұрын

    1:35 are they really that far apart from each other or is that to showcase each segment of the pillar. I always imagined them closely connected.

  • @hubblespacetelescope

    @hubblespacetelescope

    4 ай бұрын

    We worked with an expert on the pillars. The science papers show that there are four separate pieces, as shown in the video. Our expert approved our visualization as being "scientifically reasonable". I'll note that we don't have perfect information, but this presentation is consistent with the current understanding.

  • @Dm3qXY

    @Dm3qXY

    4 ай бұрын

    i am in no relation with the researchers, but allow me to speculate: you can assume that these are "educated guesses" based on the quality of the spectral information measured - simply put: estimating depth on color and sharpness for each captured "pixel". i am not fully aware of the capabilities of the measurement technology, but in theory, observations from different points on the orbit (around the sun) could allow for depth estimation (as in stereoscopy)

  • @MrRomanGladiator2503
    @MrRomanGladiator25034 ай бұрын

    I bet you didn't notice the pun in the title at first.

  • @supreetsahu1964

    @supreetsahu1964

    4 ай бұрын

    I did😅

  • @bazpearce9993

    @bazpearce9993

    4 ай бұрын

    A simple bit of wordplay goes a long way.

  • @johnnyyjohnnyy
    @johnnyyjohnnyy4 ай бұрын

    😍

  • @andrastetriformis6241
    @andrastetriformis62414 ай бұрын

    😲👏

  • @davidharvey3743
    @davidharvey37434 ай бұрын

    That's because they are so large that any movement and growth are imperceptible at this distance and in only 30 years. When they look again in a thousand years, with telescopes a thousand times better, they'll see a slight change.

  • @chase123456ist
    @chase123456ist4 ай бұрын

    PILLARS OF CREATION

  • @shailajaskhote4686
    @shailajaskhote46864 ай бұрын

    Creater alone knows mysteries of creation

  • @vivekanandar.d.5295

    @vivekanandar.d.5295

    24 күн бұрын

    Sri Ramakrishna paramahamsa had a similar experience stating, 'After realizing God, one sees that it is " God Himself " who has become the universe and all living beings. The Divine Mother revealed to me in the Kali temple that it was She who had become everything. 🙏🏻

  • @jenniferwilliams2077
    @jenniferwilliams20774 ай бұрын

    Wait, isn’t it supposed to be the Pillars of Creation?

  • @thomasgoodwin2648
    @thomasgoodwin26484 ай бұрын

    🖖😎👍 P.S. ❤

  • @vishesh.a
    @vishesh.a4 ай бұрын

    Why is pillars of creation the only thing given so much importance from webbs photos. Deep fields are the best.

  • @a.rodimtsev9446
    @a.rodimtsev944619 күн бұрын

    Video goes far too fast. No time to absorb images.

  • @Seventh7Art
    @Seventh7Art4 ай бұрын

    The creation of pillars of Creation... Right.... The problem is that the name "Pillars of Creation" is too religious and thus the name is inappropriate or even anti-scientific.

  • @JoostH.

    @JoostH.

    4 ай бұрын

    Stars are being created… it’s a stellar nursery

  • @Yesica1993

    @Yesica1993

    4 ай бұрын

    Wow, you cannot stand even the title! Understand that you will one day bow before this Creator you now mock and reject. Know that. Repent, while He still grants you the breath to do so. Psalm 19 "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork."

  • @Dm3qXY

    @Dm3qXY

    4 ай бұрын

    "it's anti-scientific" depends on what the science discovers or has to discover... aren't you a bit conclusion jumpy regarding the relation between religion and science?

  • @Seventh7Art

    @Seventh7Art

    4 ай бұрын

    @@JoostH. That might be a nice interpretation indeed.

  • @Seventh7Art

    @Seventh7Art

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Dm3qXY Relation? Religion is the opposite of science by definition. Please refer to your nearest.... dictionary.

  • @altafnazir
    @altafnazir3 ай бұрын

    not interesting