# Eagle Nebula on SpaceSphere

> A star-forming cloud whose towers of gas and dust, the Pillars of Creation, are among the most recognised images in astronomy.

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Nebula

A star-forming cloud whose towers of gas and dust, the Pillars of Creation, are among the most recognised images in astronomy.

## Facts

- **Position**: 274.70071, -13.80722 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 6 (Source: SIMBAD Astronomical Database)
- **Apparent size**: about 120 x 25 arcminutes (Source: OpenNGC)
- **Constellation**: Serpens (Source: OpenNGC)

## Catalogue designations

NGC6611, M16, LBN 67, MWSC 2886

Source: OpenNGC

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- This research has made use of the [SIMBAD database](https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/), operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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