Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton /EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger Explanation: 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 . ... Toward the other extreme of the electromagnetic spectrum , XMM-Newton's X-ray vision reveals the massive, hot stars of the nebula's embedded star cluster. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...