a James Webb Space Telescope Captured the iconography Pillars of Creation، NASA (USA) this Wednesday (19).
The Pillars of Creation are located 6,500 light-years from Earth, in the Eagle Nebula of the Earth’s galaxy, Milky Way.
The twinkling of thousands of stars illuminates the first image of the James Webb Telescope of these giant orange-brown plumes towering in the middle of the universe.
Pillars of Creation
Pillars of Creation are huge structures of gas and dust filled with stars 6,500 light-years from Earth. On the left, the highest resolution image from the James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared camera. On the right, the last image taken by the Hubble telescope in 2020 – NASA / European Space Agency / Canadian Space Agency / French Space Agency
At the ends of several columns there are bright red spots resembling lava.
“These are projectiles from stars that are still forming,” the US space agency said, “just a few hundred thousand years old.” United State in the current situation.
“These young stars periodically release hypersonic jets that collide with clouds of material, such as these thick plumes,” he explained.
The “Pillars of Creation” became famous thanks to Hubble Space Telescopewho first captured them in 1995 and later in 2014.
Now, with the infrared capabilities of James Webb, the world’s most powerful and newest telescope launched into space less than a year ago, one can see through the opacity of the plumes, revealing the formation of many new stars.
“On popular request, we had to do Pillars of Creation” with James Webb, tweeted today Klaus Pontopedan, science program director at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which directs Webb Baltimore.
“There are so many stars!”
In a tweet summed up by NASA astrophysicist Amber Straun: “The universe is beautiful!”
The image, covering an area about eight light-years across, was taken by Webb’s NIRCam imager, which captures near-infrared wavelengths invisible to the human eye. Image colors have been “translated” into visible light.
According to NASA, the new image will “help researchers renew their models of star formation by determining more accurate numbers of newly formed stars, along with the amounts of gas and dust in the region.”
James Webb has been working since July, making observations 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. One of the main goals of this $10 billion telescope is to study the life cycle of stars. Another major line of investigation is the study of outer planetsany planets outside the solar system of the Earth.
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