On October 19, the NASA space agency shared images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. They captured one of the most beautiful collections of interstellar gas and dust known to mankind – the so-called “Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula, 6500-7000 light-years from Earth.
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In the previous famous images of the “pillars” taken by the Hubble telescope for the first time in 1995 and then repeated in
The bright red dots in the image are newly formed stars, while the lava-like red wavy patches at the ends of some of the pillars are stellar outbursts that form from gas and dust. The new images will help scientists refine their understanding of star formation.
ShareThe Pillars of Creation got their name because the gas and dust in them are involved in the process of formation of new stars with the simultaneous destruction of clouds under the light of already formed ones. According to one hypothesis, the “Pillars” no longer exist, they were destroyed – but on Earth they will see this only after a thousand years.
