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The Pillars of Creation

A stupendous view of the Pillars of Creation, a section of the Eagle Nebula.
A stupendous view of the Pillars of Creation, a section of the Eagle Nebula. Image: Science NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Image Processing Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

You may recognize these structures. They are the Pillars of Creation, light-years-long tendrils of gas in the Eagle Nebula that were iconically imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.

Webb’s view of the pillars is bedazzled with stars compared to Hubble’s shot, and show brilliant areas of star formation.

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