Eagle Nebula

nebula
Also known as: M16, NGC 6611

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age determination

  • Centre of star cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104), showing the colours of various stars.Most of the brightest stars are older yellow stars, but a few young blue stars are also visible. This picture is a composite of three images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
    In star cluster: Open clusters

    A still younger cluster is NGC 6611, some of the stars in which formed only a few hundred thousand years ago. At the other end of the scale, some open clusters have ages approaching those of the globular clusters. M67 in the constellation Cancer is 4.5 billion years old, and…

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