Intelligent_Moose_48 t1_iu6w9ez wrote on October 29, 2022 at 12:31 AM

It’s so wild to try to imagine the sheer scale of these things. Lightyears across.

Zenki_s14 t1_iu6zwpq wrote on October 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM

5 lightyears across, 1 lightyear being 6 trillion miles or 9 trillion km. Just completely unfathomable. And the pillars are just a small feature of the Eagle nebula. Wild indeed

Maxtheaxe1 t1_iu7rq19 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:20 AM

Yeah it's at least 2 football fields of length

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sweat119 t1_iu9n3mc wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:10 PM

How many bananas is that?

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