Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dusty Structure of the Pillars of Creation
The observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) provides a different view of the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing young stars that have not yet cast off their dusty “cloaks.” This is not an ethereal landscape of time-forgotten tombs. Nor are these soot-tinged fingers reaching out. These pillars, flush with gas and dust, enshroud stars that are slowly ...
