The Webb telescope reveals dust structures in the Pillars of Creation

This is not an ethereal image of a long-forgotten mausoleum, or soot-covered fingers reaching out. These pillars, packed with large amounts of gas and dust, are home to stars that have slowly but surely been forming over millennia. NASA/ESA/CSA’s James Webb space telescope has capture this mesmerizing and extremely ‘dusty’ shot of the Pillars of Creation in mid-infrared light, regaling us with a new version of this familiar landscape.