Educational Material: FITS Liberator - The Eagle Nebula

This FITS Liberator Education Material includes:

502nmos.zip: A zip'ped FITS file taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 camera of the star-forming nebula Eagle Nebula through a narrow-band 502 nm filter ([OIII]). 6.33 MB.  

656nmos.zip: A zip'ped FITS file taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 camera of the star-forming nebula Eagle Nebula through a narrow-band 656nm filter (H-alpha). 6.24 MB.  

673nmos.zip: A zip'ped FITS file taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 camera of the star-forming nebula Eagle Nebula through a narrow-band 673nm filter ([SII]). 6.34 MB.  

eagle_composite.zip: A zip'ped Photoshop 16 bit (.psd) example file that contains a full three-colour data sets taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the star-forming nebula Eagle Nebula, imported into Photoshop with the help of the ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator. 14.42 MB.

Image description: Undersea coral? Enchanted castles? Space serpents? These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are also incubators for new stars. The pillars protrude from the interior wall of a dark molecular cloud like stalagmites from the floor of a cavern.