The legendary “pillars of creation” revisited by the James Webb Telescope
NASA’s giant telescope was pointed at an area of sky that its predecessor, Hubble, was famous for.
NASA’s Large Web Telescope, launched into space late last year by a European Ariane 5 rocket, has been pointed toward a corner of the sky for which it is famous. Hubble Space TelescopeNicknamed “Pillars of Creation”. The remarkable result yields two completely different images, which provide a whole new look at what astronomers call stellar nurseries, the large clouds of gas and dust where stars are born.
“These are long-awaited images, because they are an object, the Eagle Nebula, which was spotted by Hubble and has become a symbol of this observatory, Olivier Bernier, a CNRS astrophysicist at the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetary Science (Irap), in Toulouse, testifies. The fact that these two images from the Webb Telescope are being pushed by NASA at the moment is a clear indication of Hubble.”
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The observed area has been called the “Pillars of Creation” because of the shape of the three…
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