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EAGLE
The dog's tongue sticking strikingly out from the head of the Eagle nebula is unusual in being so well formed hence easily seen. Tongues are commonplace in nebulas, so commonplace there is no need to cite others, - once seen easily recognized thereafter - except to note that the horse's head in Orion is actually a large tongue.
Click for another view more strongly enhanced in red.
This pillar above is an endview, of canister base, and long pillar-neck.
In the above large view, the pillar's canister base with cowel opening is clearly seen, as is the dog's 'tongue'. This appears to be a full scale pillar glombed on top of a shaft of a different making, that is, the top pillar is complete from the canister opening facing left on out to the far distant end on the right.
Eyestalks have been indicated in grey color windows. A long trail in red toned window seems to be a red jet, rather than an eyestalk.
There is huge bulk in this formation, even projected into extreme enhancement ranges there is bulk only dimly indicated behind the scenes in the rear.
Next is a very long range pullback onto the Eagle nebula, the main pillars very small rising up in the middle of the image.
Click for Eagle original
Click for Eagle enhanced 1
Click for Eagle enhanced 2 Click for Eagle enhanced 3
NOVABURST EXPLOSION REMNANTS IN EAGLE PILLAR
Which leads to a succinct direct question - how old is the pillar, how many novas and supernovas has it had.
This Hubble black and white view, besides highlighting the novaburst, shows little eyestalks wiggling all over the place.
NEXT, LOOKING AT THE JUMPER CABLE
In this scale of enhancement the Eagle has taken on a matte texture, which can't be helped, the enhancement is to see (as much as possible0 the nature of the jumper cable between the two pillars, and what, if anything, can be seen within the pillar's darkest areas. We have at least learned that the jumper cable circles back and comes forward for hookup at each end.
Click for black and white large
Click for black and white original
Click for Eagle pillars original
Click for Eagle pillars large
EYESTALKS IN THE TRIFID NEBULA.
These tonsils could be proto eyestalks without yet eyeballs or eggs glowing at the ends.
These Trifid eyestalks are of the major kind, crackling at static charge lengths from a pillar. There is so much that is hard to see in this image next, that three views are shown each making some of the hard stuff easier to see.
Notice the tonsil floating on its own upright out in a blue background at the left, obviously a major formation which is l o n n n g and thin, in these frequencies only a ghost is seen with a pyramid conal head.
The white string out into left space, though irregular in texture, is too lineally straight to be an eyestalk which usually curls. This string may be a smoke trail from a fast travelling star or kernal on fire, if a star, the star is not seen.
Click for Trifid original
Click for Trifid enhanced
Click for more Trifid images
The pillar seems to be poking out from behind, the impression gained when viewing in overlay by merging the two images together by eyesight.
Next is a pullback view, enough to show the pillar with eyestalks glowing green edged in the lower left corner of the frame.
Click for trifid enhanced 1
Click for trifid enhanced 2
Closeup reveals a knotted twisted and kinked nature. There is no question this is a red jet formed not from a powerful jet engine locked at a standstill within the pillar but from a smoking star migrating out into free space at high speed it is possible in this case that either the star is too small to be seen or is a kernal (not a star) so has no corona. Kernals from supernova explosions are not unheard of, Sn1987 has two kernals. one each glowing in each of two smoke rings formed after a supernova in 1987.
The two above smoking jet zooms came from a Hubble master black and white. Click for blk and wht zoom 1
Click for blk and wht zoom 2
Click for blk and wht display size
Click for blk and wht full size
Here is a Trifid view enhanced by professional sources and posted on APOD. Substantially more detail is seen in the dark areas of the pillar.
KEYHOLE NEBULA
In the Keyhole nebula, external eyestalks are seen, one detached drifts on its own in the outer left. A second eyestalk (if this is what it is) juts to a point from the left shank of the pillar.
Seeming eyestalks, without glowing globules or stars at the end, are seen within in the Keyhole, two in fact form curved short dark slashes across some Keyhole landscape.
Orion proplyd is floating upward and outward eerily forth, trailing a faint (yellow) haze.
Click for proplyd 2 original.
A migrating proplyd in Orion drifts forward. Tailing behind is a thin brown trail curving back into haze to the left. This image is nice, (when viewed in stereo overlay by merging the two pictures together by eyesight), in revealing both that proplyds can migrate and their migratory path can be tracked.
What is not seen is the proplyd's destination, however, the trail, being curved, suggests a cometary path such that the proplyd is being drawn back toward a strong gravitational body hidden in the murk behind the scenes
Click for proplyd 1 original.
Hubble Stsci page for proplyds in Orion.
Comprehensive survey of proplyd research and images in Orion.
A large eyestalk, looking not unlike the head of a match, sticks out on its own from haze in Orion.
Migrating souls in orion, some in small clusters, some hanging around in a well, on curved tails all point as if heading home toward big momma.
Slices of arcs are obviously important here, some have stars at the ends of the slices, indicating rapid travel of motion in tight curved paths, there may be powerful gravitational sources behind the firewall of opacity effecting these small stars, they (those with slices of arc) seem like fleas arcing out and back into dog fur.
The leading theory contender in science of the day is that intense giant bright stars have blown away sundry matter exposing other stars and have created trailing penumbra cones where sundry matter has been shielded from the solar winds blasts by each migrating star.
Earlier Orion migrating souls image (source unknown).
Not eyestalks with stars at the end, these are gobs larger than the orbit of Pluto, trailing long penumbra trails from stellar winds blasting from the energetic star at the center of the Helix nebula.
The leading theory contender for today in science is the gobstalks are being created by the hoary stellar winds from the central star. It is possible there are two causes, that the gobs are being dragged out of the nebula rim by the center star's gravity, back toward center, while at the same time shielded matter continues to trail behind in penumbras.
Hoary solar winds stellar blast suggests the whole inner rim is being blown back while simultaneously moving back under original nebula explosion velocity. Gobs have gravity, enough perhaps to mutually attract in ways to reverse their original outward propel.
EYESTALKS AS ZOOMED BY HUBBLE
Ground based reference image used for Hubble location of the gobs.
Click for Helix reference image full size.
Note the faint white outer rim. It is a residual of an older ring and shows up in Helix images normal oriented as this click.
Click for Hubble main Helix image
Click for Helix color image with residual outer ring
In fact this outer shell can be used as an excellent example of the value of enhancing astronomy images looking for hidden content, in that the shell (which shows up loud and clear in infra red) can be found in optical colors images which show no trace of the shell at all until highly enhanced.
APOD for Helix 'cometary' gobstalks. A search of APOD for 'Helix' produces a number of different Helix pages posted over the years.
NGC 3603
An apparent eyestalk in an image of Ngc 3603, has issuing west what seems a broad beam described elsewhere as the Red Slider ray. A brightly radiant star associated with this eyestalk is examined here.
Pillar and eyestalk in the Rosette Nebula. More details are here.
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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