... Dust of the Orion Nebula . ... As the Moon orbits the Earth, the half illuminated by the Sun first becomes increasingly visible, then decreasingly visible. ... In 1995, a now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula. ... The Helix Nebula is one of brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, a gas cloud created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. ...