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Space photo of the week: Iconic 'Eagle Nebula' gets a major glow-up on Hubble's 35th anniversary

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Image of the Eagle Nebula ( Messier 16 ) is 7,000 light-years away, in the constellation Serpens .

It is the latest redux image published to mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope .

The new image more clearly shows how radiation from the hot, young stars in the more dramatic top half of the image is lighting up — but also eroding — the massive tower.

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