What are the “pillars of creation” captured by the James Webb telescope?

The James Webb Space Telescope captured new images, which were broadcast by NASA on its website yesterday evening, Wednesday, and said that they are for what astronomers call the Pillars of Creation, or metaphorically “pillars of creation”, a giant group of interstellar gas and dust, located in the Eagle Nebula or The distant “Eagle Nebula” in the “Living Constellation” is more than 6,500 light-years away.

Scientists considered these “pillars” to be among the best and most beautiful star sights, and ranked them among the most famous when they received the first picture taken in 1995 by the “Hubble” space telescope when it was discovered that year, and then second pictures in 2014 also, in which the block appears shortly after its discovery, as a view It is a natural in which new stars are formed and reproduced in dense clouds of gas and dust, so they are called the Pillars of Creation.

However, the Hubble images did not reveal what James Webb revealed in his new images of the pillars, despite their accuracy and clarity, because he is equipped with infrared devices, and he was able to see many of the effects of light scattering between the dust of the pillars to examine the activity of a newly born star, so NASA said in Her statement on the new images “will help scientists update their models for star formation and birth by counting new ones more accurately, with a better estimate of the amount of gas and dust scattered in the region,” as she put it.

Stars are born from the remains of dead stars

Scientists say that if you were able to magically move yourself to where the “pillars of creation” are, it is very likely that you will not see them at all, because what you see in their new images now, is a look at them from what they were in a past that took light 6500 years to reach Observing telescope mirrors and depicting it as it was in that ancient time.

In the images, the old from “Hubble” or the new from “James Webb”, which cost 10 billion dollars to manufacture and launch last December, a region appears in which new stars are formed from the fragments of stars before it ended in the form of columns of gas, and these columns are formed in the form of balls and floccules emerging from the shadow of a pillar. And you may not believe what scientists assert, which is that the size of each ball of these gatherings is larger than the entire solar system.

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