Eagle Nebula
At a glance
- Type
- Nebula
- Distance
- Milky Way
- Naked eye
- Only through a telescope
- Known since
- 1600–1900 (early telescopes)
- Colour
- Multicoloured
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- The Eagle Nebula holds the Pillars of Creation, made famous by a Hubble photo in 1995.
- The tallest of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula is about four light years long.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q11349 · All space objects · All entries