"The pillars are composed of cool molecular hydrogen and dust that are
being eroded by photoevaporation from the ultraviolet light of
relatively close and hot stars.
The leftmost pillar is about four light years in length.
The finger-like protrusions at the top of the clouds are larger than
our solar system, and are made visible by the shadows of evaporating
gaseous globules (EGGs), which shields the gas behind them from intense
UV flux. EGGs are themselves incubators of new stars. The stars then
emerge from the EGGs, which then are evaporated.
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