Zoom into Webb’s View of the Pillars of Creation
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The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of colour in the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. This is a region where young stars are forming - or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form.
Protostars are the scene-stealers in this Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image. These are the bright red orbs that sometimes appear with eight diffraction spikes. When knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually begin shining brightly.
Along the edges of the pillars are wavy lines that look like lava. These are ejections from stars that are still forming. Young stars periodically shoot out jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. This sometimes also results in bow shocks, which can form wavy patterns like a boat does as it moves through water. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for millions of years.
Although it may appear that near-infrared light has allowed Webb to “pierce through” the background to reveal great cosmic distances beyond the pillars, the interstellar medium stands in the way, like a drawn curtain.
This is also the reason why there are no distant galaxies in this view. This translucent layer of gas blocks our view of the deeper universe. Plus, dust is lit up by the collective light from the packed “party” of stars that have burst free from the pillars. It’s like standing in a well-lit room looking out a window - the interior light reflects on the pane, obscuring the scene outside and, in turn, illuminating the activity at the party inside.
Webb’s new view of the Pillars of Creation will help researchers revamp models of star formation. By identifying far more precise star populations, along with the quantities of gas and dust in the region, they will begin to build a clearer understanding of how stars form and burst out of these clouds over millions of years.
The Pillars of Creation is a small region within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light-years away.
Webb’s NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.
More information and download options: esawebb.org/videos/weic2216d/
Credit:
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, ESO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, T.A.Rector, B.A.Wolpa, ESA/Hubble, J. DePasquale, A. Koekemoer, A. Pagan, N. Bartmann, M. Zamani
Music: Tonelabs - The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
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I honestly had no idea the pillars were in an area like that. I always figured they were completely separate somewhere out there. What an amazing find by Hubble back in the day
I remember Google testing GoogleEarth with NASA back in the '90s looking like this. Start out with the whole Earth in the screen just like when you open the app today and then slowly zooming down to where you could count the people and cars in the parking lot in San Francisco. Awesome. We've come a long way, Baby.
Simply amazing
Gorgeous🤩
Stunning
Wow this new image of milky way panorama is cool
Magnificent!
MIND. BLOWN.
@malibustacy3606
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Precious Paul
a star-forming region of our galaxy
Wow.
That’s unreal good work defiantly the prettiest thing I’ve seen in my life time ❤
The pink nebula that you can see disappearing to bottom left corner at about 0:27 is commonly known as the Swan Nebula. It has other, more formal, names as well.
Why did they select that part only among this huge creation ? Can't they select another part , and it will be the same thing ?
What is the speed of dark❓
@oneseeker2
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I thought space was dark
@martynh5410
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@@daispatrick Yes. Dark is instantaneous!
terra do Sol ✨✨🖤⚪🔵
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Anyone else think the red gas from before it gets to them looks kinda like a face? Made me think of a pharaoh maybe like at 0:32
0:00
NASHEEE
0:34 Bro this actually looks like a face..
@chesi_7_0_79
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Looks like a sleeping woman's face
Так це дивно🤔