Um … wasn’t this just up a couple of days ago? 
djm
I don’t recall the happy-colored celestial dragées, though.
Gee, I always see those. Are you suggesting they aren’t the norm?
djm
Why, no. Not at all. ahem 
The one from a couple of days ago was an older image (circa 1995). This one is a composite of that image with recent data from the Chandra X-ray observatory. I find it rather facinating that Chandra did not detect very many stars within the ‘pillars.’ Until recently the prevailing thought was these pillars were ‘nurseries for young stars.’ Now with the data availibe from other spectra we find the data might not support that hypothesis.
Astronomy is never a dull endevour
Personally, I don’t care how many times this gets posted. I was gobsmacked by the ‘Pillars of Creation’ when the first images were released, and the impact remains undiminished by repeated exposure after all these years.
The same goes for the Hubble ‘Deep Field’ image. Damn, those aren’t stars, they’re galaxies of billions of stars… dotted around like single stars.
Whatever process created the universe… Respect - fantastic job. 
Perhaps the point is that the xray vision proves they are not “Pillars of Creation”. If these are simply columns of cosmic dust being blasted by the solar winds of newly formed stars, a new title for the image is required. I propose “Eat My Dust Pillars”.
djm