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Webb Space Telescope snaps spooky image of Pillars of Creation

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The James Webb Space Telescope has released a spooky new photo of the iconic Pillars of Creation. 

In a Thursday release, NASA wrote that the eerie image was taken by the $10 billion-dollar observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, also known as MIRI. 

The pillars of gas and Interstellar dust enshroud the thousands of stars that exist in the region. 

Stars typically do not emit much mid-infrared light and many newly-formed stars are no longer surrounded by enough dust to be detected in mid-infrared light.

WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE OFFERS RARE LOOK INTO EARLY UNIVERSE

Mid-infrared light excels at examining gas and dust in detail. 

Dust, however, is a major ingredient for star formation and – although the stars aren’t bright enough at these wavelengths to appear – it gleams at the edges.

In addition, MIRI observes younger stars that have not yet removed their dusty cloaks, seen as crimson orbs. 

The blue stars are aging and have shed most layers of gas and dust.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation 

WEBB TELESCOPE CAPTURES STUNNING IMAGE OF PILLARS OF CREATION

The Pillars of Creation have formed over many millennia. 

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of Creation famous with its first image in 1995, but revisited the scene in 2014 to reveal a sharper, wider view in visible light, shown above at left. A new, near-infrared-light view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, at right, helps us peer through more of the dust in this star-forming region. The thick, dusty brown pillars are no longer as opaque and many more red stars that are still forming come into view.

Conversely, in the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of the pillars, stars fill the screen.

The Eagle Nebula landscape, some 6,500 light-years away, was first captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 and revisited in 2014.

Notably, the bright red star sticking out of the topmost pillar’s southeastern edge, are larger than the size of our entire solar system.

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