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The image, dubbed the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula, was taken by Hubble in 1995. The elephant trunk-shaped features in this iconic Hubble image are star-forming regions made up of ...

Seen below is IC 1396 or the Elephants Trunk Nebula. [img]2[/img] These animated GIF images are in all actuality an artist interpretation of how he thinks the nebula would appear if passing by.

These dissections are rare because the procedure is difficult. “The head of an elephant with the trunk and everything is about 600 kilograms,” Brecht says. “Dissecting them requires ...