Monday, July 8, 2024

Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from the NASA/ESA Hubble and the NASA/ESA/CSA Webb Space Telescopes - YouTube

Made famous in 1995 by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,the Pillars of Creation in the heart of the Eagle Nebula have captured imaginations everywhere with their haunting,ethereal beauty.Now,NASA has released a new 3D visualization of these towering celestial structures using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.This is the most comprehensive amd detailed multiwavelength movie yet of this star-birthing region based on observational data from a science paper led by Anna Macleod,as associate professor at the University of Durham,United Kingdom.Macleod also served as a science advisor on the project.*Text by NASA and edited by Andrew Taylor* Credit:Greg Bacon,Space Telescope Science Institute (STsci) in Baltimore,Maryland:Producer*Frank Summers (STsci):Director*Anna Macleod (Durham):Science Advisor*The Eagle Nebula is about 7,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.*Cosmology is the study of the origin and structures of the universe.

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