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" Inside the Image // Hubble Space Telescope"

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"Mystic Mountain"

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This image is one of the most iconic of 
all Hubble images, called Mystic Mountain,  

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and it is a place of enormously Active Star 
formation. This entire pillar is about three  

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light-years in duration that means it's so 
long that it takes light traveling at 186,000  

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miles per second, takes it three years to go from 
the bottom to top. And the entire area is filled  

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with this really condensed collection of dust 
and gas that's created this stellar nursery.  

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We see on the outside edge here where the material 
is heated and evaporating off the surface of the  

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cloud but you also have Stellar winds that are 
sculpting this like a like a Michelangelo that  

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would be sculpting a statue, knocking pieces 
of the nebula off into Interstellar space so  

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we have a mechanical sculpting process along 
with a heating process from radiation coming  

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off of the stars, so the two together are what 
combine to create this gloriously detailed image

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You see these jets coming out of two sides 
of that top pillar, and down here again  

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those are signatures of stars actually forming. 
Material is coming down collapsing onto the star  

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and getting heated up and when it tries 
to get out it has to shoot out in jets.  

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This bow shape, that is actually a shock 
wave from the material in the jet hitting  

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the interstellar medium and heating it up. 
One of the best images I think that we've  

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we've gotten but this one is just the right 
angle that you get a gorgeous view of it.  

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It's become an iconic image I think for several 
reasons, uh one is that it has such incredible  

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detail in there but also because it holds a 
fascination as being a place where we can actually  

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see stellar systems forming before our eyes, it's 
also famous I think because of its sheer beauty.  

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I mean there's a lot of art in Hubble images 
a large fraction of the value of Hubble is not  

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just to give us the science data that we need but 
it's to appreciate the beauty of the universe.

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