Pillars of creation

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990. It's spent the past 3 decades acquiring magnificent images of distant space objects, providing a time machine that's taken astronomers back to when the universe was less than a billion years old.

M-16 the Eagle Nebula & Fairy Nebula a.k.a. the Pillars of Creation by: Matt Hughes Cropped rotated mobile wallpaper 1080x2400

You may or may not know that the data from the James Webb Space Telescope (as well as all other NASA telescopes) is freely available to the public. I downloaded the raw data from the Near Infra Red cameras (NIR) and processed this data to create this image.

M-16 Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation by Bray Falls Cropped mobile wallpaper 1080x2400