NASA's Webb Telescope captures ‘Pillars of Creation'

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Almost 27 years ago, Hubble Telescope captured landscape picture of this Pillars of creation. It is part of Eagle Nebula.

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Eagle Nebula is a part of our Milky way galaxy, it is one of the biggest star factories in our galaxy. Hubble captured shows mountains of gas and dust.

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Eagle Nebula also known as M16. Pillars of creation was named on the basis of active star forming region and hide new born stars in the columns.

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Hubble captured image: Blue colour shows oxygen, Red colour is sulfur and green colour is Nitrogen and Hydrogen.

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This is the latest picture captured by James Webb Telescope by it's infrared eyes. Eagle nebula is almost 6,500 light-years from Earth and present in constellation Serpens.

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These columns are semi transparent in near-infrared light. Hubble captured previously image in 1995.

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This newly captured image will help in understanding the process of how stars and dust formed in the pillars.

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Above new image captured with Webb’s Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. They show gases and dust in this image

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When gas & dust falls under own gravity, slowly heat up, and after some time form new stars in that pillars of region.

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NASA's Webb Telescope captures ‘Pillars of Creation'

NASA's Webb Telescope captures ‘Pillars of Creation'

Almost 27 years ago, Hubble Telescope captured landscape picture of this Pillars of creation. It is part of Eagle Nebula.

Eagle Nebula is a part of our Milky way galaxy, it is one of the biggest star factories in our galaxy. Hubble captured shows mountains of gas and dust.

Eagle Nebula also known as M16. Pillars of creation was named on the basis of active star forming region and hide new born stars in the columns.

Hubble captured image: Blue colour shows oxygen, Red colour is sulfur and green colour is Nitrogen and Hydrogen.

This is the latest picture captured by James Webb Telescope by it's infrared eyes. Eagle nebula is almost 6,500 light-years from Earth and present in constellation Serpens.

These columns are semi transparent in near-infrared light. Hubble captured previously image in 1995.

This newly captured image will help in understanding the process of how stars and dust formed in the pillars.

Above new image captured with Webb’s Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. They show gases and dust in this image

When gas & dust falls under own gravity, slowly heat up, and after some time form new stars in that pillars of region.

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