The photos show the birthplace of a group of stars from the Eagle nebula, which is 7,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. Astronomer Jeff Hester is fascinated by the photos. The pictures may answer questions asked for hundreds of years about how are stars are formed and why some are larger than others. The columns of cold hydrogen gas and dust are extremely dense. They're beginning to evaporate under the intense heat from nearby stars.
Astronomers say they can see evaporating gaseous globules, or EGGs, inside the pillars.
The light which allowed the Hubble telescope to take the picture came from a series of stars, which were screened out to allow the telescope to photograph the cosmic landscape. External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive.