Imaging recource: Webb captures exceptionally detailed, star-filled portrait of the Pillars of Creation, revisiting one of Hubble’s most famous subjects

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning, high-resolution image of the iconic Pillars of Creation. The incredible image shows a stellar nursery, where new stars are forming among the dense clouds of gas and dust. The Pillars of Creation is a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, a cluster of stars about 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth. In the image below, the three-dimensional pillars are comprised of "cool interstellar gas and dust" that can appear semi-transparent when viewed in near-infrared light. Webb's...
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