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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The first picture of them was taken in 1995, but we are seeing them as they were 7000 years ago. There’s a theory that they were destroyed 6000 years ago, but we won’t see that for another 1000 years.
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