Eagle Nebula

It's a young cluster of stars, only 5,5 million year old.

Its name comes from the cloud that resembles an eagle.

In the beginning of 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope took a photograph that became known as the Pillars of Creation inside the nebula and it shows a large area of star formation.

The biggest of these columns of gas and dust is about 7 light-years long.

Recent studies suggest that those pillars don't exist anymore. 6000 years ago they were destroyed by a supernova, but light takes time to travel and we might have to wait 1000 years to notice its extinction. 

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I've been researching astronomical stuff and a photo of the Eagle Nebula inspired me to do some simple illustration on my watercolour sketchbook - Ugh this paper takes so long to dry - The white area was done with my fingers because I think I am a brush.