Webb space telescope renders Pillars of Creation with new depth and clarity

One of the celebrated, awe-inspiring photos of recent astronomy, revealing colossal spires of interstellar gasoline and mud referred to as the Pillars of Creation, has been rendered anew with better depth, readability and colour by the James Webb Area Telescope.

The brand new view of the pillars, first made well-known when captured in 1995 by Webb’s predecessor observatory, the Hubble Area Telescope, was unveiled by NASA on Wednesday, three months after Webb’s inaugural batch of cosmic pictures was unveiled because it started full operations.