Zoom into Webb s view of the Pillars of Creation
The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of colour in the NASA, ESA, CSA James Webb Space Telescopes nearinfraredlight view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semitransparent gas and dust, and ever changing. This is a region where young stars are forming or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form. Protostars are the scenestealers in this NearInfrared Camera (NIRCam) image. These are the bright red orbs that sometimes appear with eight diffraction spikes. When knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually begin shining brightly. Along the edges of the pillars are wavy lines that look like lava. These are ejections from stars that are still forming. Young stars periodically shoot out jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. This sometimes also results in bo
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