L: Hubble Telescope, 2014 R: James Webb Space Telescope, 2022 Read more on NASA's stunning new photo of the iconic stellar birthplace known as “The Pillars of Creation':
The image captures nascent, bright-red stars within a billowing cloud of gas and dust at an iconic stellar birthplace known as “The Pillars of Creation.”
The crimson protostars, estimated to be just a few hundred thousand years old, form when knots in the cloud gain enough mass that they collapse under their own gravity and slowly rise in temperature, according to a joint statement from the coalition behind the Webb telescope, which includes NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
The scene is captured by the Webb telescope’s near-infrared camera, which affords the capacity to detect light from the first stars and galaxies. The telescope, launched last December, has delivered images to the public since July. The Pillars of Creation, first captured by the Hubble Telescope in 1995, left, were photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light, identifying more precise counts of newborn stars, along with the quantities of gas and dust.
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