Cosmic Beauty

As we all know, the Hubble Space Telescope has unlocked the cosmos for human eyes to behold. Never before have humans been able to see so deep into space in such a clear, beautiful way. This is best demonstrated in the following pictures of the Eagle Nebula. The columns are pillars of hydrogen gas acting as incubators for new stars. They're artificially colored, but they're still awesome pictures. Even though they look like "artist's renditions," they're the real thing. The top image is the entire nebula, and the bottom image is closer up. Imagine how other things in our great universe would look. Just...beautiful.