Eagle Nebula

Nebula

Home to the Pillars of Creation, towering columns of gas and dust where new stars are forming.

Facts

TypeNebula
Nebula typeEmission
Distance from Earth5,700 ly
Diameter662,000,000,000,000 km
Mass2.39 × 10^34 kg
Temperature9,727°C
Apparent magnitude6
Redshift0
HemisphereSouthern
Discovered1745

Eagle Nebula in context

At 662,000,000,000,000 km across, Eagle Nebula is 51,954,167,321 times the diameter of Earth.

Its mass is 4,002,009,377 times the mass of Earth.

The light reaching us from Eagle Nebula tonight left it around 5,700 years ago.

An average temperature of 10,000 K works out at 9,727 degrees Celsius, warmer than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

It has been on record since 1745.

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