Technically, visible with the naked eye. As you go up in optics, you'll get more detail. A nicer higher end home telescope would probably be sufficient and satisfying. It takes time and optics to gather enough light to make it what I think you are expecting.

An example of someone doing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqt6JaA_K6o

A big one, with a good camera and a tracking device plus the necessary filters and then post processing - technically yes.

With the naked eye looking through a decent telescope, no

This is the answer I believe the poster was looking for.

Does anybody remember being told that the pillars of creation were destroyed and not there anymore? This is like a Mandela effect for me.

I dont understand why people takes the time to tell you that, but not to explain the time it takes for light to reach us

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I understand the time dilation part. I just thought you it was one of those facts that pillars of creation was gone..

Thanks you!

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Oh.. nice! Thanks for sharing.

But 3.5 hours exposure time is kind of crazy.

(Relatively) Not a lot of photons coming from that tiny patch of sky 6500 light years away.