Eagle Nebula [SEP] discoverer or inventor
Eagle Nebula
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains
nebulae in fiction Eagle Nebula.
Diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, cataloged as "M16". The Eagle Nebula, so named from its supposed resemblance to the iconic raptor (frontal view, wings spread, head bowed), is the location of one of the Hubble Space Telescope's most popular images, the "Pillars of Creation" (see graphic below), which often appear in science fiction film and television. The picture was released by NASA in 1995; within two years (1997) it had