James Webb telescope takes new image of Pillars of Creation

NASA has released a new image of the Pillars of Creation. This is an area of ​​pillar-shaped gas clouds about 6,500 light years from Earth in which new stars are formed. The image shows some bright red zones where new stars appear to be forming.

In these bright red zones there is according to NASA accumulated so much mass that their gravitational pull increased and they collapsed. This is said to have caused temperatures in these zones to rise, eventually leading to the formation of new stars.

Some of the pillars also feature wavy lines that resemble lava, according to NASA. According to the space agency, these are stars that are still forming and emit gas and dust at a very high speed during their formation process. That gas and dust come into contact with the substance of the pillars, creating a wavy pattern in the gas clouds.

According to NASA, other galaxies can usually be seen in the images from the James Webb telescope. That is not the case with this image, however, because a combination of transparent gas and dust, better known as the stellar mediumwould prevent this.

1995 the Hubble Telescope recorded the Pillars of Creation for the first time on the sensitive plate. In 2014 the pillar-shaped gas clouds have been re-imaged. NASA used the James Webb Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera to capture this most recent image of the gas cloud. The Pillars of Creation, or Eagle Nebula Messier 16, is a region of space with gas clouds about 6,500 light-years from Earth in which new stars are forming.