This limited Edition giclee canvas print is hand painted by Sienna Morris with phosphorescent paint so that at night or under a black light, you can see the stars being born. Each limited edition glow also includes hand drawn numbers and words that Sienna hides in the piece which are unique in each piece. There will be 20 editions in this limited edition series.
The Eagle Nebula, or Messeir 16, located in the constellation Serpens
is part of “The Pillars of Creation”, a famous photograph taken from the Huble Space Telescope
where we can see clusters of stars being born.
The birthplace of stars is much like looking back at our own birth.
It is from star nurseries like this that life is created.
As the plasma collapses on itself under it’s own gravity, it forms stars,
which undergo fusion and nuclear synthesis, thus creating new, heavier elements, such as iron.
These new stars radiate some of these new elements through it’s lifetime.
When the stars eventually go super nova, they send out these elements far around them,
crashing into other nebula and starting the system all over again.
This Nebula can potentially create entire solar systems with planets and stars possibly similar to our own.
This 100 trillion kilometer high nebula is more than a beautiful image; it is potential in it’s truest form.
Data in this piece:
The Eagle Nebula is a HII nebula, and is primarily composed of ionized atomic Hydrogen or HII.
The wavelength for molecular Hydrogen is 656.281, which gives the nebula a red coloring.
The majority of the main “body” is drawn with that wavelength.
These Nebulae are also composed of about 20% Helium and trace amounts of heavier elements.
HII Nebula reach upwards of 10,000 K. This data is also drawn in the main “body” of the nebula.
The Eagle Nebula is 6,500 light years away, which is the data the space around the nebula is drawn with.
The stars themselves are drawn with the speed of light, 299,792,458 m/s.
Given that this Nebula is about 6,500 light years away, we are seeing it as it was about 6,500 years ago.
According to the Spitzer Space Telescope, The Pillars of Creation were most likely destroyed
by a nearby super nova around six thousand years ago.
It will take another 500 – 1,000 years for the image of it’s destroyed state to reach us.
The majority of the “snail” part of the nebula is drawn with Jean’s Instability equation,
which expresses the parameters which cause the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent star formation.
In general, the cloud is unstable if it is either very massive at a given temperature or very
cool at a given mass for gravity to overcome the gas pressure.
It occurs when the internal gas pressure is not strong enough to prevent gravitational collapse
of a region filled with matter.
There are also some hidden lines drawn in here, which I will leave for you to find for yourself.
