New Stars are Born. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 20th Anniversary.

This beautiful composite picture taken by Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray observatory of NASA. It is Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16 in Astronomy), famously known as 'PILLARS OF CREATION'.

Stars are nothing but hydrogen balls of gas. Big stars explode at the end of their life cycle throwing gas and dust into space forming nebulae (many nebula). Eventually out of this gas and dust, new stars, planets and life are born.  There are 1183 young stars in this nebula.

In above picture, all those points of light are young stars. Big stars explode throwing off their contents into space forming next generation of stars, planets and life. That is the cycle of life in this universe. The above young stars can only be in X-ray wavelengths which was captured by NASA's Chandra-X ray observatory which orbits the earth. It's been 20 years of Chandra and it keeps bringing the universe closer to us than ever before.