NASA released new images of "Pillars of Creation" captured by Webb Space Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).
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Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope launched in 2021, named after James E. Webb. It is designed to observe the most distant objects in the universe.
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The image shows Iconic "Pillars of Creation" of stars
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These iconic Pillars of Creation were found 6500 light-years away from our galaxy. The area is brimming with gas and dust, which are essential ingredients for star formation.
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Newly formed stars are the scene-stealers in this image
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The bright red, wavy lines at the edges of pillars reveal that stars are ejecting matter as they form.
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Nasa wrote, "Newly formed stars are the bright red orbs that usually have diffraction spikes and are outside of one of the dusty pillars."
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When knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars of gas and dust, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars, Nasa wrotes
These images of the Pillars of Creation will help scientists and researchers to update their models of star formation
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