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Retrieved from the European Homepage for the NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope. Entitled "The Eagle has risen: Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula" ( Messier 16, NGC 6611 ). This object is actually a billowing column of cold gas and dust emerging from the stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The column is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres long, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.
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