Enlarge / The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning new look at the iconic Pillars of Creation.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been the gift that keeps on giving, releasing one jaw-dropping image after another since the summer. Today, NASA released a stunning near-infrared camera image of the iconic “Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula, some 7,000 light-years away.
“I’ve been studying the Eagle Nebula since the mid-1990s, trying to see ‘inside’ the light-years long pillars that Hubble showed, searching for young stars inside them,” Mark McCaughrean of the European Space Agency told BBC News. “I always
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