Hubble Space Telescope images (top) reveal dusty pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16); the “pillars of creation” image is on the right. The Spitzer Space Telescope infrared image penetrates the dust and exposes newborn stars that were hidden inside the cocoon-like pillars. The hot dust linked to a supernova explosion is shown as red in this false-color composite.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale