02-Hubble's Final Frontier 哈勃的最终领域

For the first time, scientists see that each pillar is dotted with small clumps of gas.

Could such clumps be a missing link in the birth of stars?

Hester calls the clumps, Evaporating Gaseous Globules. EGGs, for short.

The image reveals that forming inside some of the EGGs are embryonic stars.

What we are looking at is a snapshot of a very dynamic process. A snapshot of something that's changing.

As part of that change, you know, a next generation of stars is emerging.

This one for example, you can see the little red dot in there which actually is the star.

And that one is an especially nice one, where the star at the tip of the EGG is actually pronounced.

In the photograph, the EGGs appear small. But our entire solar system could fit comfortably inside each one.

These hot clumps of gas are the first stage of the formation of a star.