Eli5: how do the pillars of creation just stay the same shape out in space for so long and how did it all accumulate in that area?

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Eli5: how do the pillars of creation just stay the same shape out in space for so long and how did it all accumulate in that area?

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They are big. Really, REALLY, unfathomably big.

If you were to shoot a gun on one side of the Pillars, it would take 1.5 Million years for the bullet to cross them without slowing down.

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