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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Wednesday shared an amazing 3-D video of the ‘Pillars of Creation’, an active star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula. The video was created by compiling images captured by NASA’s Webb and Hubble telescopes.
NASA 3D video of the Pillars of Creation
The ‘Pillars of Creation’ have fascinated humans for decades, and credit goes to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which first captured this ethereal beauty at the heart of the Eagle Nebula in the 1990s.
The 3D video of ‘Pillars of Creation’ will enable the viewers to fly past these pillars and experience their existence as a three-dimensional structure. The visible light images of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ have been captured by NASA’s Hubble Telescope, while the infra-red images have been captured by NASA’s Webb Telescope.
“This paradox helps them understand why we have more than one space telescope to observe different aspects of the same object,” NASA quoted Frank Summers, lead visualization scientist at the Baltimore-based Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), as saying.
“By flying among the pillars, viewers can experience their three-dimensional structure and see how they look different in the Hubble visible-light view and the Webb infrared view,” Summers said.
About the pillars of creation
The ‘Pillars of Creation’ are giant stems of cosmic dust and gas and lie at the centre of the Eagle Nebula, originally known as M16. A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Some nebulae are home to dust and gas ejected from the explosion of a dying star, while some are regions forming new stars, such as M16.
The ‘Pillars of Creation’ hide newborn stars in their thin columns. This region contains gases like oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, etc. These clouds extend for about 4 to 5 light years. The Eagle Nebula was discovered in 1745 by Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux. This cloud of gas is located in the constellation Serpens, 7,000 light years away from Earth.
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Published: June 28, 2024, 02:48 PM IST
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