The Pillars of Creation are a set of famous dust clouds 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens, in the heart of the Eagle Nebula. They were made famous by the classic Hubble Telescope image captured by Paul Scowen and Jeff Hester.

The pillars themselves stand about 30 trillion miles tall, dwarfing the size of our own solar system. It has been theorized that they have been destroyed by a supernova 6,000 years ago, but the light of their destruction will not arrive for another millennium.

This is a very high-resolution ground-based image I captured of the Pillars, at 0.2 arc seconds per pixel. One of the most detailed captured, and it serves as a great marker for how far I've come since starting astrophotography nine years ago.

Collector will receive a metal print of the image.