The image allowed scientists to view how much cosmic dust — needed to create stars — is in the region.
Other images this month include VV 191 galaxy pair and cosmic dust which looks almost like tree rings.
The James Webb Space Telescope released a new, mid-infrared view of the 'Pillars of Creation' on Friday, revealing two types of stars and giving researchers the chance to study the cosmic dust in the massive columns of gas.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
The photos include a cluster star cluster that is 5.6 billion light-years distant. The massive gravity of MACS0647-JD galaxy cluster MACS0647 bends and magnifies the light from MACS0647.
Galaxy cluster MACS0647’s massive gravity acts as a cosmic telescope to magnify and bend light from the MACS0647/JD system. It also triple lensed JD system, which caused its image to appear at three different locations. These images are highlighted with white boxes and marked JD1, JD2, or JD3. Zoomed-in views can be found in the panels to right. In this image from Webb’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument, blue was assigned to wavelengths of 1.15 and 1.5 microns (F115W, F150W), green to wavelengths of 2.0 and 2.77 microns (F200W, F277W) and red to wavelengths of 3.65 and 4.44 microns (F365W, F444W).
SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, Dan Coe (STScI), Rebecca Larson (UT), Yu-Yang Hsiao (JHU) IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Earlier this month, the newest photos of the 'Pillars of Creation' were released, revealing a sky full of stars previously unseen by weaker telescopes.
The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. These pillars appear like arches or spires rising from desert landscapes, but they are actually filled with semitransparent gas and dust that is constantly changing. This is a region where young stars are forming – or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).
A side-by-side comparison shows the additional detail revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, compared with the Hubble Space Telescope's image from 2014.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of Creation famous with its first image in 1995, but revisited the scene in 2014 to reveal a sharper, wider view in visible light, shown above at left. A new, near-infrared-light view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, at right, helps us peer through more of the dust in this star-forming region. These thick, brown, dusty pillars are now less opaque and more red stars are visible.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).
The ripple is caused by cosmic dust in space and visible around Wolf-Rayet 140 (a binary starsystem).
The interaction of binary stars creates cosmic dust shells that look like tree rings around Wolf-Rayet140.
NASA, ESA and CSA, CSA, STScI. NASA-JPL. Caltech
Near-infrared light from Webb, and ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble, show "interacting" galaxies that are actually very far apart.
This galaxy pair VV191 image includes near-infrared and visible light from Webb.
NASA, ESA and CSA. Rogier Windhorst, ASU, William Keel (University of Alabama), Stuart Wyithe, University of Melbourne. JWST PEARLS Team. Alyssa Gagan (STScI).
