The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking new image of the Pillars of Creation — an iconic star nursery first viewed nearly 30 years ago.
on Twitter that the team wanted to capture the Pillars of Creation using the new space telescope after seeing popular demand for it.
"The nebula, M16, is located right in the plane of the Milky Way; there are just so many stars!" Pontoppidan wrote."This image was taken in exactly the same way as the cosmic cliffs, and covers an area the same size on the sky."The left picture shows the Pillars of Creation as shot by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. The right picture shows the landscape as shot by the James Webb telescope in 2022.
"Not only are there obvious stars speckled in every nook and cranny of this image, but if you look closely at the tips of the pillars, you can see this fiery redness,"
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