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Note the similarity between the pillar in Ngc 3603, and the Horsehead nebula. The telltale common artifact is an open cowling on the side of the canister base in the both the Ngc 3603 pillar, and the Horse head.
Other Horsehead links - here 1 here 2 here 3 here 4
Note that a second pillar is jutting in from the right border.
Next is the second pillar, rotated and shown in enhanced closeup. Nothing of a canister base is seen but that may be just that the Hubble image was cropped when being photographed and there may be a canister base for the second pillar it is not visible in this Hubble image. Note also a tiny rose thorn sticking out in the middle of the canopy at the base (picture bottom), this might be an eyestalk seen from frontal instead of as usual from side profile.
On the other hand, the rose thorn looks not unlike a very miniature pillar, is this possible, that baby pillars grow to become Mt. Everest pillars. (That was supposed to be a joke. The fact that the rose thorn seen under extreme high enhancement is a miniature pillar look-alike is a surprise and there is no other comment about this).
A suggestion that pillars are black holes drifting around, their appearance made manifest by condensation and energy fields, is made here, in seeking to address a polarity issue noticed for most (if not all) pillars.
BACK TO THE MAIN PILLAR
Three different enhancements from a view level pulled back slightly reveal numerous details about the events involving the main pillar.
The original Hubble image of Ngc 3603 looks like this, next, and is found at this site.
Faint area in the lower left outskirts is actually filled with dim medias, and myriads of tiny stars which are everywhere near and far tucked into the folds of the nebula.
THREE EYESTALKS
Three eyestalks are seen inside the cape, one issues from murk near the right edge, a second from the left hem, and a third, very short, is up under the cap. Each eyestalk has a star at its end.
Again three different enhancements, each stereo combination casting different 3D light on significant details, which are everywhere within the spume cap, and shaft.
Eyestalks are a subject of their own page in GIC.
A VLT image has the rest of the upper right pillar, as well as a third pillar extending below the second. The VLT image (by nature VLT images are not usually replete with vivid details), is nonetheless able to show that 'pillars' are a fact of life in Ngc 3603, and reveals something else, an eerie tonge with round open template off the end of the upper pillar where an eyestalk might be expected.
Here is the Hubble pillar, compared with the same seen above in the VLT image. A slight difficulty in matching the two in mind's eye is the VLT image is rotated anti clockwise by about 35 degrees.
There is nothing wrong with your eyes. I rotated the center portion of the larger VLT image then cut a zoom to see how the rotation looked in stereo, so happy then, quitting the graphic editor without saving the larger image with rotated center. So, decided to use the above with a large piece only shown in rotation. You can see the rotated square in 3D, with its corners cropped. There is nothing wrong with your eyes. There is nothing wrong with the image, either, it really well shows how the VLT photo of the pillar, and the Hubble version, compare.
Another astronomy feature is well presented in the above view, that objects can look substantially different when photographed in different frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, or visible light, one photo to the other. The VLT image features a large brighter flow rising along the outer left flank of the pillar, while the Hubble view features the pillar itself. So, then, which is actually the more accurate image of this area of the nebula. Hard to say, isn't it. Must be hell for astronomers sometimes trying to decide what frequencies to do their photos in.
DSS IMAGE
Dss shows two large bobs, the one midcenter is Ngc 3603.
Click for Eso original
Click for Hubble original
Click for Dss enhanced
Click for Dss original
Dark content
is filled with dim media
Notice the number of stars, in both red, and blue.
Click for large image 1
Click for large image 2
Click for original
Web site/display/designs/image enhancements - Greydon Moore World's largest cosmic teaching site - Ottawa 2001/2004 form A & O 3 3
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