Instrument on ESO 's Very Large Telescope ( the Eagle Nebula ) captured image . Shows exactly how the different dusty pillars are distributed in space . The pillars shed about 70 times the mass of the sun every million years . They are expected to have a lifetime of perhaps three million more years - which is relatively short in cosmic terms .
Instrument on ESO 's Very Large Telescope ( VLT ) captured image . Shows exactly how the different dusty pillars are distributed in space . The pillars shed about 70 times the mass of the sun every million years . They are expected to have a lifetime of perhaps three million more years - which is relatively short in cosmic terms .