The Pillars of Creation | NIRCam | JWST Flash Drive
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This image of The Pillars of Creation from the Near-Infrared Instrument (NIRCam) of the JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) shows newly formed stars sparkling among the huge floating columns of gas and dust. There's a lot of tiny blue, yellow and red dots everywhere in and around the pillars, each dot is a single star. The Pillars of Creation are between 6500-7000 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/