This image showcases a close-up view of the Pillars of Creation, a famous star-forming region located in the Eagle Nebula, approximately 7,000 light-years away from Earth.
Made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope, the pillars are towering columns of gas and dust, illuminated by the intense radiation of nearby young stars. These columns serve as the birthplace of new stars, with the densest regions eventually collapsing under their own gravity to form protostars.
The complex details visible in this image are the result of the interplay between radiation, winds, and gravity within the nebula, and provide a vivid illustration of the complex and dynamic nature of the cosmos.
About the Deep Space Collection:
Shot entirely with my rooftop telescope from the urban skies of Buenos Aires, the Deep Space Collection features many objects observable only from the southern hemisphere.
All images in the collection were shot using individual narrowband filters which cut off most of the light and allow only very specific wavelengths to pass (the light emitted from ionized hydrogen, oxygen and sulfur), making it possible to photograph deep space objects even from the highly light polluted skies of the city.
The images from each separate filter are then processed individually, combined and mapped to RGB channels for a final color image.
Two different color mapping palettes were used in this collection: SHO, where sulfur is mapped to red, hydrogen to green and oxygen to blue in what is referred to as "Hubble Palette" processing (as used in the images the famous space telescope) and HOO, where hydrogen is mapped to red, and oxygen to blue and green.
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