This infrared picture highlights the contrast between the hot, supernova-heated dust (green) and the cooler dust making up the Eagle Nebula's dusty star-forming clouds and towers (red, blue and purple).The image includes longer infrared wavelengths, and is a composite of light of to microns (blue); 24 microns (green); and 70 microns (red). Infrared View of the Eagle Nebula

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