6 extremely rare pictures of Eagle nebula captured by NASA

Messier 16, also known as the NGC 6611, and is known by the popular name of “The Eagle Nebula". M16 is a large diffuse emission nebula associated with a star cluster located about 5700 light-years away.

Pillars of Creation: Towering clouds of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, located about 6,500 light-years away.

Located in the constellation of Serpens, the Serpent, the Eagle Nebula is a very luminous open cluster of stars surrounded by dust and gas.

The three pillars at the center of the image, made famous in an image by the Hubble Space Telescope, are being sculpted by the intense radiation from the hot stars in the cluster.

In this Hubble Space Telescope image, researchers has revisited one of Hubble's most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.

Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.