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20 Dollars Pillars of Creation and Black Hole
| Issuer | Palau |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Weight | 93.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a richly colored and highly detailed depiction of the Pillars of Creation within the Eagle Nebula, rendered across the right portion of the field in deep purples, blues, and warm ochres with vivid luminescent highlights along the gas column edges evoking the iconic Hubble Space Telescope imagery. To the left, a three-dimensional sculpted representation of a black hole dominates, featuring a raised accretion disc rendered in concentric rings of gold, amber, and copper tones encircling a darkened event horizon. The entire composition is set against a star-scattered deep-space background executed in full color. The date 2022 appears in small numerals at the lower edge of the field. |
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Palau has issued commemorative silver under licensing arrangements with NASA imagery since the early 2010s, and this piece draws on the 2022 James Webb Space Telescope release of the Pillars of Creation — a region of active star formation in the Eagle Nebula roughly 6,500 light-years distant, originally photographed by Hubble in 1995. The Webb image, captured in near-infrared, revealed structural detail invisible in the earlier version and generated more public attention than any single NASA release in years.
The black hole element references the 2019 Event Horizon Telescope composite image of M87*, the first direct visual capture of a black hole's shadow.