Dazzling New James Webb Telescope Images of the Pillars of Creation

The Pillars of Creation stretch gloriously across the sky in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Can you spot the bright red orbs? Those are brand new young stars, as captured by JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). And the wavy edges of the pillars? Those are ejections from still-forming stars.

This image in the video is set within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light-years away. This scene was first imaged by Hubble in 1995 but many other observatories have also looked at this region. Each advanced instrument provides new details about this region.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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[Meggey]

I wanna float around and observe it. As if I could just reach out and touch it.