He was released by NASA this wednesday, october 19th, new record of acquaintances “Pillars of Creation”, which are structures located in the heart of the Eagle Nebula star cluster, 6,500 light years away from Earth.
The image was captured using the super telescope. James Webb, the world's leading space science observatory, launched in December 2021.
In the record, it is possible to see in great detail the structures similar to pillars (actually, are columns of interstellar hydrogen gas and dust), which also serve to form new stars.
In 1995, the space telescopic hubble recorded the Pillars of Creation for the first time. Since then, the landscape has been revisited and studied by countless observatories.
The statement from the American space agency says that each advanced instrument offers researchers new details about the region, which is "overflowing" with stars. NASA also said that the small bright red dots in the image are young stars "only a few hundred thousand years old."
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With the new images, researchers will be helped to reformulate their star formation models and identify more accurate counts of newly formed stars, as well as the amounts of gas and dust in the region.
It is hoped that, over time, they will be able to build a clearer understanding of how stars form and exit these dusty clouds over millions of years.
By Erica Caetano
Journalist
*image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (reproduction)
