--- title: 'Pillars of Creation': NASA Releases New Photo of Iconic Space Scene description: See a new picture of the 'Pillars of Creation' in a new light as NASA celebrates the Hubble's upcoming 25th anniversary canonical: https://time.com/3655056/pillars-of-creation-photo-nasa/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-06T01:51:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:06:24.305Z article:section: Science og:title: See the Iconic 'Pillars of Creation' in a New Light og:description: As NASA celebrates the Hubble's upcoming 25th anniversary og:url: https://time.com/3655056/pillars-of-creation-photo-nasa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe651bde4d54e180/69877844e53aba0fec4d6d87/pillars-creation-nasa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1769 og:image:height: 995 og:image:alt: pillars-creation-nasa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Iconic 'Pillars of Creation' in a New Light twitter:description: As NASA celebrates the Hubble's upcoming 25th anniversary twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe651bde4d54e180/69877844e53aba0fec4d6d87/pillars-creation-nasa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Iconic 'Pillars of Creation' in a New Light > Sponsored content. 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Future Proof is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jan 6, 2015 1:51 AM UTC  Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have assembled a bigger and sharper photograph of the iconic Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation" Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have assembled a bigger and sharper photograph of the iconic Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation"Hubble Heritage Team/ESA/NASA  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jan 6, 2015 1:51 AM UTC The Pillars of Creation quickly become one of the most iconic images of outer space after the photograph was taken in 1995\. Now, to celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope in April, Hubble is taking a trip down memory lane — and back into the far corners of the Eagle Nebula. A new, high-definition photo recently [unveiled](http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-goes-high-definition-to-revisit-iconic-pillars-of-creation/#.VKs3Gq1sYb5) at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle provides an even sharper, wider and colorful view of three massive gas columns and their surrounding celestial neighbors in near-infrared light. NASA said the frame “hints that they are also pillars of destruction.” “I’m impressed by how transitory these structures are,” Paul Scowen of Arizona State University, who worked on the initial Hubble observations of the Eagle Nebula, told NASA. “They are actively being ablated away before our very eyes. The ghostly bluish haze around the dense edges of the pillars is material getting heated up and evaporating away into space. We have caught these pillars at a very unique and short-lived moment in their evolution.”  The original image of the "Pillars of Creation" taken by the Hubble Telescope in 1995. 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