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	Messier Object 16
		The Eagle Nebula Messier 16 (M16) is a conspicuous region of active star formation, situated in Serpens Cauda.
		The nebula was added in the IC II of 1908 as IC 4703, with "cluster M16 involved", but the NGC 2000.0 erroneously classifies this object as an open cluster.
		The nebula was probably first photographed by E.E. Barnard in 1895, and by Isaac Roberts in 1897; Isaac Robert's finding brought this object into the IC catalog.
	www.seds.org /messier/m/m016.html (776 words)

	Nebulae - Zoom Astronomy
		A reflection nebula is a nebula that glows as the dust in it reflects the light of nearby stars.
		The Cygnus loop is a nebula, a supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus.
		The Orion Nebula is roughly 30 light-years in diameter.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/stars/nebulae.shtml (638 words)

	Eagle Nebula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier Object 16, M16 or NGC 6611), perhaps one of the most famous and easily recognized space objects, is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46.
		It is associated with a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703.
		The Eagle Nebula was one of the space regions passed through during the opening "zoom out" shot of the movie Contact (1997), and appeared in the opening scene of the Babylon 5 episode Into The Fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eagle_Nebula (262 words)

	Akeley Hallway - Eagle Nebula
		The nebula is actually a bowl-shaped blister on the side of a dense cloud of cold interstellar gas.
		Unlike other stellar nebulae which we see face-on--like the great Orion nebula--M16 presents astronomers with a unique side view of the structure of a typical star-birth region: the cluster of hot, young stars in the center of the cavity, the evaporating surface of the cloud, and finally the great cold mass of the cloud itself.
		The Eagle nebula's name comes from its symmetrical appearance which is reminiscent of a bird of prey with outstretched wings and talons bared.
	www.usd.edu /phys/tour/eagle.htm (1171 words)

	Henrietta Leavitt Flat Screen Space Theater: Eagle Nebula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This is an image of the Eagle Nebula taken by David Malin at the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
		The nebula is certainly majestic-looking enough, with a throne-shaped pillar of darkness outlined against the rosy glow of the surrounding clouds.
		In this nebula, the pillars are dense clouds of molecular hydrogen gas and dust that have survived while surrounding gases have been evaporated in the glare of ultraviolet light from nearby hot massive newborn stars.
	www.thespacewriter.com /eagle.html (602 words)

	When Eagles Lay Eggs
		They are part of the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 - the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" objects that aren't comets), a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
		The exotic young planetary nebula (or dying star remnant) MyCn18, about 8,000 light-years away, is revealed to be have an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of "etchings" in its walls.
		This glowing remnant of a dying, sun-like star, first sighted in 1787, is nicknamed the "Eskimo" Nebula (NGC 2392) because of its resemblance to a face in a fur parka (when viewed through telescopes on the ground).
	flatrock.org.nz /topics/science/eagle_nebula.htm (1099 words)

	Eagle Nebula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Eagle Nebula (NOT a planetary nebula) is an immense structure of columns or pillars of gas and dust located some 7000 lightyears away toward the constellation Serpens.
		The knots and filaments on the surfaces of the pillars are formed as the surface of the pillars - heated by the hot stars - boils away.
		The red spot in the eagle's butt is due to gas being heated and ionized from a jet coming from a protostar in the bottom of the image.
	www.astro.ku.dk /~pela/LaSilla/eagle.html (186 words)

	The Eagle has risen: Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula
		Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas.
		The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left.
		The Eagle Nebula image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
	www.spacetelescope.org /images/html/heic0506b.html (608 words)

	M16 and M17 - The Eagle and Omega Nebulae
		The Eagle nebula (M16) is the largest of the two nebulae, although the name M16 (or NGC 6611) is often used only for the bright central region of the nebula and IC 4703 is used for the entire nebula.
		The Omega nebula is known to be situated at the northeast end of a huge (and dark) molecular cloud that stretches across several hundred light years.
		The centre of this nebula is illuminated by a bright and compact cluster of stars with a diameter of about ten light years.
	www.atlasoftheuniverse.com /nebulae/m16m17.html (868 words)

	SPACE.com -- Kitt Peak Captures New Pic of Eagle Nebula
		This wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera.
		The wide-field image of the Eagle Nebula was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
		The Eagle Nebula, also called M16, is a classic star forming region, a place roughly 7,000 light-years from Earth where gas and dust are thought to feed the birth of new stars.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/new_eaglenebula_020613.html (375 words)

	Messier 16, the Eagle Nebula
		The Eagle Nebula is located about 7,000 light years from Earth, in the constellation Serpens.
		It is a combination of an open cluster (a loose grouping of related stars) and a gaseous nebula consisting of gas and dust.
		They are dark, not because they are "holes" in the nebula, but rather because they are made up of dust that blocks the light of the nebula.
	www.kwastronomy.com /M16_Eagle_Nebula.htm (183 words)

	The Interesting Eagle Nebula
		The Eagle Nebula, associated with open star cluster M16 of the Milky Way, was named for its dramatic similarity to the appearance of an eagle.
		This is largely true for the Eagle Nebula with much of its glory being due to a brilliant display of red colors in addition to blue and white light.
		The resemblance of an eagle is due to the presence of three tall dark pillars of EGG’s, or evaporating gas globules.
	www.articledashboard.com /Article/The-Interesting-Eagle-Nebula/13995 (598 words)

	M16: The Eagle Nebula
		The nebula was not discovered until later, when it was probably found by EE Barnard in 1895.
		It is a region in which young stars formed about 2 million years ago, and are still forming today, in the regions of gas and dust known as dust lanes.
		The dark columns of dust are known as 'Elephant Trunks' which they resemble, forming the eagle's 'castle', or eyrie.
	www.r-clarke.org.uk /messier/m16.htm (109 words)

	HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Celebrates 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images (04/25/2005) - Release Images
		Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighborhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas.
		The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left.
		The Eagle Nebula image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
	hubblesite.org /newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2005/12/image/b (735 words)

	Spitzer Science: Stars
		During the late stages of its life, a star typically ejects gaseous material from its outer layers, either through gentle periodic processes (such as a nova), or through a violent cataclysmic explosion (supernova).
		Spitzer will study the stellar ejecta in planetary nebulae, providing information about the temperature and chemical composition of the ejected material, and on the mass loss rates of the parent star.
		The gas and dust thrown off dying stars is an important constituent of the interstellar medium, and its study is essential for understanding not only stellar death, but the birth of the next generation of stars.
	www.spitzer.caltech.edu /science/stars/index.shtml (965 words)

	MSX Showcase: Eagle Nebula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Eagle nebula is a large emission nebula which is still in the process of forming new stars.
		The atoms in an emission nebula are energized by the ultraviolet radiation from nearby stars, causing the the nebula to warm up and emit light.
		The star forming regions in this nebula are surrounded by thick clouds of gas and dust which hide the new stars from optical telescopes.
	coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu /msx/eagle_nebula.html (162 words)

	NSSDC Photo Gallery: Nebulae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Crab Nebula, M1, as imaged by HST and the Mount Palomar telescope.
		Star forming region in the nebula NCG 604, in the nearby sprial galaxy M33, as imaged by HST and the Mount Palomar telescope.
		Star forming region in the nebula NCG 2366, in the Magellanic galaxy NGC 2366, as imaged by HST and the Canada-France-Hawaii (CFHT) 3.6-meter telescope on Mauna Kea.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-nebula.html (259 words)

	M16 and NGC6611 (Eagle Nebula) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		M16 is an open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens Cauda located at a distance of approximately 7,000 light years.
		NGC6611, the Eagle Nebula, surrounds the cluster and is comprised of a great interstellar cloud of gas and dust.
		This region, like the Orion Nebula, is a stellar breeding ground where new star formation continues in the region of the dark "elephant trunks," which are visible at the lower center of this image.
	www.astroimages.org /ccd/m16.html (152 words)

	M16 - Eagle Nebula
		They are part of the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" objects that aren't comets), a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
		This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas (two atoms of hydrogen in each molecule) and dust that is an incubator for new stars.
		The stellar EGGS are found, appropriately enough, in the "Eagle Nebula" (also called M16 -- the 16th object in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of "fuzzy" permanent objects in the sky), a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
	astrosurf.com /albustan/M16.htm (725 words)

	Eagle Nebula
		Open Cluster M16 and the Eagle Nebula, a composite image consisting of a luminance image taken in hydrogen alpha light, and a colour image.
		The stars in the cluster are only about 5.5 million years old with star formation still active in the Eagle Nebula; this results in the presence of very hot young stars of spectral type O6.
		The nebula extends to a diameter of over 30', corresponding to a linear size of about 70x55 light years.
	www.angelfire.com /space2/tgtan/Eagle_Comp_dslr.htm (397 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| New images of Eagle Nebula and 'Pillars of Creation'
		This is a three-color composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16), based on 144 individual images obtained with the infrared multi-mode instrument ISAAC on the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory.
		However, this past austral autumn (April and May 2001), European astronomers were able to image the Eagle Nebula at near-infrared wavelengths, using the infrared multi-mode ISAAC instrument on the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.
		While a few tens of new stars may be forming in the pillars today, at least a thousand young stars were born in the adjacent NGC 6611 cluster within the last few million years, including the massive stars themselves.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0201/02esoeagle (2869 words)

	EAGLE NEBULA STAR FORMATION
		Hubble found the "EGGs," appropriately enough, in the Eagle nebula, a nearby star-forming region 7,000 light- years away in the constellation Serpens.
		Though this trace dust accounts for only a fraction of the nebula's mass, it's enough dust to absorb visible light -- cloaking some of the visual details of star birth.
		But even though the "birth cloud" nebula will be gone, most of the stars that formed there will remain.
	www.pa.msu.edu /~steinr/isp205.s99/eagle.html (1601 words)

	The Eagle Nebula M16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The gaseous nebula (H II region) Messier 16 (NGC 6611) in Serpens, shown from a 30-second red-light exposure (through clouds) with a Tektronix 2048x2048 CCD at the prime focus of the 4-meter Mayall telescope of Kitt Peak National Observatory.
		North is at the top and east to the left, for direct comparison with a chart or eyepiece view.
		Those data led to the identification of an important role for photodissociation in limiting star formation in regions such as this; the intense UV radiation erodes surrounding gas away before much lower-mass stars can complete their formation.
	www.astr.ua.edu /gifimages/m16r.html (192 words)

	M16, Eagle Nebula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		I see an eagle in the dark gaseous pillars in the center, getting ready to eat a fish.
		I see an alien face at the top of the big picture which is actually the Star Cluster, M16.
		It is a better view of the eagle eating a fish or as the Hubble folks called it, the "pillars of creation".
	schmidling.com /m16.htm (231 words)

	Eagle Nebula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A closer look of the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust.
		Already visible are several young bright blue stars whose light and winds are burning away and pushing back the remaining filaments and walls of gas and dust.
		The Eagle emission nebula, tagged M16, lies about 6500 light years away, spans about 20 light-years, and is visible with binoculars toward the constellation of Serpens.
	www.wolaver.org /Space/eagle.htm (159 words)

	WISE - Multimedia Gallery: Eagle Nebula
		An infrared image of M16, the Eagle Nebula, taken by the ESA/ISO satellite.
		The false-color image was constructed from a 7.7 micron infrared exposure (shown as blue), and a 14.5 micron infrared exposure (shown as red).
		This nebula is the site of active star formation in the Milky Way Galaxy.
	wise.ssl.berkeley.edu /gallery_eagle_nebula.html (70 words)

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