James Webb captures a unique detail in Pillars of Creation.

space telescope James Webb captured a lush and highly detailed landscape, an iconic Pillars of Creationwhere stars form in dense clouds of gas and dust.

In this version of mid-infrared light, the 3D pillars look like majestic rock formations, but they are much more penetrating. These plumes are made up of cold interstellar gas and dust that sometimes appear translucent in near-infrared light. POT this is a statement.

What did James Webb find again?

Webb’s new take on Pillars of Creationfirst famous when they were photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope on POT in 1995 it will help researchers update their star formation models by determining much more accurate counts of newly formed stars and the amount of gas and dust in the region.

Over time, they will begin to better understand how stars form and how they erupt from these dust clouds over millions of years.

The newly minted stars are the ‘scene stealers’ in this image taken by the Webb Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). These are bright red orbs that usually have diffractive spikes and are outside of one of the dust pillars. When nodes of sufficient mass form inside the columns of gas and dust, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heating up and eventually forming new stars.

What about those wavy lines that look like lava on the edges of some of the pillars? These are the ejecta of stars that are still forming from gas and dust. Young stars periodically release supersonic jets that collide with clouds of material such as these thick pillars. It also sometimes results in bow strikes, which can form undulating patterns, much like a boat does when moving through water.

The crimson glow comes from energetic hydrogen molecules resulting from jets and collisions. You can see it in the second and third columns from the top: the NIRCam image practically pulses with your activity. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old.

While it might appear that near-infrared light allowed Webb to “penetrate” the clouds to reveal the vast cosmic distances behind the pillars, there are no galaxies in this image. Instead, a mixture of translucent gas and dust known as the interstellar medium in the densest part of our galaxy’s disk, the Milky Way, blocks our view of the deeper universe.

This scene was first photographed by Hubble in 1995 and revisited in 2014, but many other observatories have also studied the region in depth. Each advanced tool provides researchers with new details about this region, literally teeming with stars.

This heavily cropped image is in the great Eagle Nebula, which is 6,500 light-years away. (EuropePress)

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