Deep-Sky Object

Eagle Nebula (M16)

Also known as M16

Home of the Pillars of Creation.

Visible tonight?

Below horizon · rises 10:16

A star-forming region 7,000 light-years away, made iconic by the 1995 Hubble image of its towering dust pillars.

See also

Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

The farthest thing you can see with the naked eye.

Orion Nebula (M42)

A stellar nursery glowing in Orion's sword.

Pleiades (M45)

The Seven Sisters — a young blue cluster.

The Milky Way

Our home galaxy, seen edge-on.

Crab Nebula (M1)

The expanding remnant of a 1054 AD supernova.

Ring Nebula (M57)

A perfect smoke ring in Lyra.