... Opportunity Rockets Toward Mars . ... Inside the Eagle Nebula . ... 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. ... A plot of over one million of the brightest "extended sources" detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) shows that they are not. ... Hurricane Isabel Approaches . ... It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula...