OUR view of the iconic Pillars of Creation has been transformed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). While these towering clouds of dust and gas, which are 6500 light years away in the Eagle Nebula, look like solid cosmic stalagmites in the classic images from the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST images reveal the stars forming within them. JWST is able to see through the dust because it observes in infrared wavelengths of light, as opposed to visible light that Hubble mostly uses. Infrared light pierces through the clouds of dust and gas to show the young stars that have just formed or are still forming in this stellar nursery.
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