NASA released this Wednesday (19) a new image of the famous “Pillars of Creation”, a structure located in the heart of the star cluster Eagle Nebula – 6,500 light-years away from Earth.
The breathtaking image was captured by the James Webb super telescope, the world’s premier space science observatory, launched in December 2021.
The photo shows in detail the pillar-like structures that are actually columns of interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that also serve as a cradle for the formation of new stars.
The Pillars of Creation became famous in 1995, when they were recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope for the first time. In 2014, the landscape was revisited and studied by several observatories.
“Each advanced instrument offers researchers new details about this region, which is practically overflowing with stars,” the US space agency said in a statement.
The super-telescope click shows tiny bright red dots, which NASA says are young stars “only a few hundred thousand years old.”
The images will help researchers reframe their models of star formation, identifying much more accurate counts of newly forming stars, along with the amounts of gas and dust in the region.
Over time, they will begin to build a clearer understanding of how stars form in and out of these dusty clouds over millions of years.
* Under the supervision of Giulia Alecrim
Source: CNN Brasil
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