article_snippet.sent: the different dusty pillars are one of the most iconic images ever to be captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
article_snippet.sent: Now, astronomers have produced the first complete three-dimensional view of these beautiful columns of interstellar gas and dust.
article_snippet.sent: For more stars to form in environments like the Pillars of Creation, it is a race against time as intense radiation from the powerful stars that are already shining continues to grind away at the different dusty pillars.
article_snippet.sent: Since then, these billowing clouds, which extend over a few light-years, have awed scientists and the public alike.'
article_snippet.sent: The Pillars of Creation are a classic example of the column-like shapes that develop in the giant clouds of gas and dust that are the birthplaces of new stars.
article_snippet.sent: The columns arise when immense, freshly formed blue–white O and B stars give off intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds that blow away less dense materials from freshly formed blue–white O and B stars vicinity.
article_snippet.sent: Denser pockets of gas and dust, however, can resist this erosion for longer.
article_snippet.sent: Behind such thicker dust pockets, material is shielded from the harsh, withering glare of O and B stars.
article_snippet.sent: This shielding creates dark 'tails' or 'elephant trunks', which we see as the dusky body of a pillar, that point away from the brilliant stars.
highlights_snippet.sent: Shows exactly how the different dusty pillars are distributed in space .
  