The Eagle Has … Arrived

Eagle Nebula, courtesy of the European Southern Observatory

We're still a few days out from the 40th anniversary of the touchdown of Apollo 11's lunar lander, the Eagle. (The launch went off 40 years and just an hour or so ago.)

Presumably to hold us over, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released this stunning new image of the Eagle Nebula.

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